Distinguished Scholar Award
The Distinguished Scholar Award is presented each year to a member of The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) who has, over a sustained period of years, made a significant contribution to the research and literature of free market economics. Recognizing that ideas which are not communicated are ideas which will have no impact, this award is presented to those among us who are the thinkers and communicators. Those who, by the dint of rigorous research and clear thinking, have communicated to their colleagues in academe and the public in general the fundamental understandings of the market economy and the system of entrepreneurship which is integral to it.
Past Recipients
2025 Kevin Grier
2024 Randall Holcombe
2023 Bart Wilson
2022 Andrew Young
2021 Daniel Houser
2020 Michael Munger
2019 James Otteson
2018 Joshua Hall
2017 Benjamin Powell
2016 Jerry Jordan
2015 Gerald O’Driscoll
2014 Edward Lopez
2013 Christopher Coyne
2012 Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas Rasmussen
2011 Peter Leeson
2010 Tibor Machan
2009 Robert Lawson
2008 Lawrence H. White
2007 Russell Sobel
2006 Gerald Dwyer
2005 Peter Boettke
2004 Thomas Saving
2003 Bruce Yandle
2002 P.J. Hill
2001 Bruce Benson
2000 Richard Vedder
1999 Gordon Brady
1998 Michael Cox
1997 Rick Stroup
1996 Richard McKenzie
1995 James Gwartney
1994 John Soper
1993 Robert Higgs
1992 Dwight Lee and J.R. Clark
1991 Tom DiLorenzo
1990 Gerald Gunderson
1989 William Peterson
1988 Don Diffine
