The Journal of Private Enterprise Best Educational Note Award
Each year, The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) recognizes the author(s) of the best academic article addressing economic education published in The Journal of Private Enterprise.
Past Recipients
2025
An Educational Note Using Rules of the Game in the Built Environment: Teaching Institutions and Incentives with Economic Mysteries
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2024
M. Scott Niederjohn and Kim Holder
2024
“Apparently You Don’t”: Economists Jokes as an Educational Tool
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 38, Issue 3, Fall 2023
Michael Munger
2022
How Jackie Robinson and Adam Smith Worked Together to Desegregate Major League Baseball: An Educational Note
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 2021
Mark C. Schug, M. Scott Niederjohn, and William C. Wood
2021
Dismal Dating: A Student’s Guide to Romance Using the Economic Way of Thinking
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 35, Issue 3, Fall 2020
Ninos Malek and Charity-Joy Acchiardo
2020
How Do Principles Textbooks Treat the Return to Entrepreneurship? The Missing Factor
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 34, Issue 3, Fall 2019
John Estill and Tom Means
2019
Teaching How Markets Work Using the Economics of The Office Website
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 33, Issue 3, Fall 2018
Daniel Kuester and Dirk Mateer
2018
Don’t Be a ‘Jibbering Idiot’: Economic Principles and the Properly Trained Economist
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 32, Issue 3, Fall 2017
Peter Boettke
2017
Economists Have No Defense: A Critical Review of National Defense in Economics Textbooks
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 31, Issue 4, Winter 2016
Christopher Coyne and David S. Lucas
2016
Did You Say That Voting Is Ridiculous? Using South Park to Teach Public Choice
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 30, Issue 3, Fall 2015
Adam J. Hoffer and George R. Crowley
2015
Textbook Confessions: Government Failure
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 29, Issue 3, Fall 2014
Hugo Eyzaguirre, Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, and J. Brian O’Roark
2014
Using Popular Music to Teach Principles of Economics: Beyoncé’s Take on Demand and Quantity Demanded
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring 2013
Leonid A. Krasnozhon
2013
A Pedagogical Note on Bastiat’s Restraint of Trade
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 27, Issue 2, Spring 2012
Cecil E. Bohanon
2012
Using Drew Carey in the Classroom
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 26, Issue 2, Spring 2011
Matthew J. Holian
2009
Using Video Clips to Teach Creative Destruction
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2009
Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.
2008
Teaching Private Enterprise through Tunes: An Abecedarium of Music for Economists
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 23, Issue 2, Spring 2008
Joshua C. Hall, Robert A. Lawson, J. Dirk Mateer, and Andrew Rice
2007
A Taste of Protectionism: Coca-Cola in the Classroom
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 23, Issue 1, Fall 2007
Benjamin Powell
2006
Teaching Economic Principles with Comic Strips
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 22, Issue 1, Fall 2006
Robert A. Lawson
2005
Homer Economicus: Using the Simpsons to Teach Economics
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring 2005
Joshua Hall
2002
Student Attitudes towards the Market System: An Inquiry and Analysis
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 17, Issue 2, Spring 2002
Charles H. Breeden and Noreen E. Lephardt
2001
Free Markets on Film: Hollywood and Capitalism
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 16, Issue 2, Spring 2001
Robert Formaini
2000
Lessons from The Lorax
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 16, Issue 1, Fall 2000
Michael Hammock, J. Wilson Mixon, Jr., and Michael F. Patrono
1999
Add Up to Success for Small Businesses in Economically Challenged Areas
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Roderick S. Barclay
1998
Onyx Music: A Case Project for Introduction to Accounting
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Scott Fouch and Debra Kerby
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