The Journal of Private Enterprise Best Paper Award

Each year, The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) recognizes the author(s) of the best academic article published in The Journal of Private Enterprise.

Past Recipients

2025

Capitalism Creates Sustainable Progress
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 39, Issue 3, Fall 2024
Randall Holcombe

2024

Shades of Gray: Product Differentiation in Antiquities Markets
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring 2023
Anja Shortland and Sami Fortune Winton

2023

Economic Freedom without Quality of Government
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2022
Ryan H. Murphy

2022

Rhetoric as a Way of Limiting the Range of Acceptable Policy Positions
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2021
Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr

2021
Private School Choice and Character: More Evidence from Milwaukee
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 35, Issue 3, Fall 2020
Corey A. DeAngelis and Patrick Wolf

2020

The Durability of Legislative Benefits and the Role of the Executive Branch’s Settlement Authority
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2019
Bryan P. Cutsinger

2019

Is Bitcoin Intrinsically Worthless?
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 2018
William J. Luther

2018

How the City Air Made Us Free: The Self-Governing Medieval City and the Bourgeois Revaluation
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 32, Issue 4, Winter 2017
Andrew T. Young

2017

The Implicit Costs of Government Deposit Insurance
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 31, Issue 2, Summer 2016
Thomas L. Hogan and William J. Luther

2016

Challenging the Empirical Contribution of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 30, Issue 1, Spring 2015
Phillip W. Magness and Robert P. Murphy

2015

A Note on the Market Provision of National Defense
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 2014
Peter T. Leeson, Christopher J. Coyne, and Thomas K. Duncan

2014

Not All NGDP Is Created Equal: A Critique of Market Monetarism
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 29, Issue 1, Fall 2013
Alexander W. Salter

2013

Praise and Profits: Cultural and Institutional Determinants of Entrepreneurship
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 27, Issue 2, Spring 2012
Benjamin Powell and Cortney S. Rodet

2012

Civilizing Society
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 27, Issue 1, Fall 2011
Claudia R. Williamson

2010

Alertness, Action, and the Antecedents of Entrepreneurship
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 25, Issue 2, Spring 2010
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein

2009

Making Room for Business Ethics: Rights as Metanorms for Market and Moral Values
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 24, Issue 2, Spring 2009
Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

2008

Housing Prices and Economic Freedom
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 23, Issue 2, Spring 2008
Noel D. Campbell, Andres Jauregui, and Kirk C. Heriot

2007

Short Run Macroeconomic Performance and Economic Freedom: Can Economic Growth Rates Be Higher and More Stable?
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 23, Issue 1, Fall 2007
Jody W. Lipford

2006

What’s Wrong—and What’s Right— with Stakeholder Management
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 22, Issue 2, Spring 2006
John R. Boatright

2005

Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Economies
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 21, Issue 1, Fall 2005
Tomi Ovaska and Russell S. Sobel

2004

The Laffer Curve for Amnesty
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 20, Issue 1, Fall 2004
E. Bruce Hutchinson and J.R. Clark

2003

Male-Female Life Expectancy and Economic Freedom
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 19, Issue 1, Fall 2003
J. Wilson Mixon, Jr. and Gary H. Roseman

2002

The Emergence of the London Stock Exchange as a Self-Policing Club
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 17, Issue 2, Spring 2002
Edward Stringham

2001

Private Employment of Prison Labor
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 17, Issue 1, Fall 2001
Charles C. Cox and Roger E. Meiners

2000

Economic Freedom, Globalization and Human Rights: Can We Have It All?
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 15, Issue 2, Spring 2000
Wesley T. Milner

Hangover Without the Party: The Impact of Threatened Drug Price Controls on Pharmaceutical Investment
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 16, Issue 1, Fall 2000
David W. Kreutzer and William C. Wood

1999

The End of the World As We Know It?: Some Thoughts on Economics of Moral Decline
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 14, Issue 2, Spring 1999
Michael DeBow

Active Labor Market Policies and Measured Unemployment in Europe
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Volume 15, Issue 1, Fall 1999
Edward Bierhanzl

1998

Production, Profits, and the Environment
The Journal of Private Enterprise
James R. Edwards

Taking Deming Seriously: Considering the Case against Incentives
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Dwight R. Lee

Protectionism: A Public Choice Perspective
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Alden Abbott and Gordon Brady

Market Alternatives for Crime Control: Entrepreneurial Response to Government Failure
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Bruce L. Benson

The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Publishing Odyssey of Free Market Ideas
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Ken Schoolland

1997

Private Enterprise and Environmental Amenities: The Case of Coastal Beaches
The Journal of Private Enterprise
James R. Rinehart

Government: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Paul A. Cleveland

1994-95

The Entrepreneur as Hero
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Candace A. Allen

Private Property, Entrepreneurship, and Poverty
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Don Matthews

1993-94

Will Government Policy Strangle Private Enterprise?
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Jon G. Udell and Robert W. Pricer

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Small Business Assistance: Do Entrepreneurs Really Need ‘Assisting’?
The Journal of Private Enterprise
William C. Wood

1992-93

Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Quality of Life: Implications for Public Policy
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Michael H. Horris, Pamela S. Lewis, and Donald L. Sexton

Assessing Firm Failure Fictions
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Bruce A. Kirchoff

1991-92

Entrepreneurship: A Natural Institution?
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Arnold F. McKee

The Seeds of Entrepreneurship
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Dwight R. Lee

The Strategy of Alliances
The Journal of Private Enterprise
Tyzoon Tyebjee

1990-91

The Reemployment Demonstration Initiatives: Small Business and the Operative Element
The Journal of Private Enterprise
John Trinkaus and Steve Wolley

Economic and Public Policy Issues Affecting Venture Capital
The Journal of Private Enterprise
W. Keith Schilit