Mises Institute awards

The following are awards and lectures sponsored by the Mises Institute.

Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize
For lifetime defense of liberty, given every year, awards $10,000 to a public intellectual or distinguished scholar

Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom
In recognition of significant and wide-ranging libertarian leadership, as a scholar or public intellectual, established through the generosity of George W. Connell.

Lawrence W. Fertig Prize in Austrian Economics
$1,000 to the author of a paper that best advances economic science in the Austrian tradition.

O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship
$1,000 to the author of the paper best advances libertarian scholarship.

Douglas E. French Prize
$3,000 for the student who emerges from the Mises University oral examinations with the best record, as chosen by the examining committee.

George and Joele Eddy Prize
$1,000 for the second-highest score on the Mises University examinations, and $500 for the third-highest score.

Ludwig von Mises Entrepreneurship Award
Certificate and beautiful inscribed medallion awarded to businesspeople exhibiting entrepreneurial success and devotion to the free-market ideal.

Elgin Groseclose Award
$20 Liberty Head Double Eagle, goes to the best piece of money writing in the previous year.

George F. Koether Free-Market Writing Award
A medal and $2,500 honorarium, presented for an outstanding book or essay.

Mises University 2009
129 candidates; 22 admitted to the oral exam after written test
 * Honors: Grant Babcock, Lode Cossaer, G.P. Manish, Matt McCaffrey, Xavier Mera, Malavika Nair, Christopher Oppermann, Ed Perry, Toban Wiebe
 * Passed: Michael Douma, Philip Impellizzeri, Guillem Laporta, David Leighton, Abhinandan Mallick, Ted Phalan, Raymond Walter, Michael Wiebe, Guillaume Vuillermey

Mises University 2008
82 candidates; 29 admitted to the oral exam after written test
 * Honors: Serenity Wang, Stanislaw Kwiatkowski, Gary Danelishen, Jeff Henderson, David Howden, Gennady Stolyarov, Matt McCaffrey, Marcin Zielinski
 * Passed: David Snead, Marco Brun del Re, Jorg Merret, Jordan Carley, Norman Horn, Daniel Lunda, Max Raskin, Anne Longman, Toban Wiebe, Ed Perry, Christopher Oppermann, Kelsey Winther, Sebastian Quick, Matt Mortellaro, Brandon Harnish, Graham Neary

Mises University 2007
51 candidates; 20 admitted to the oral exam after written test
 * Honors: Daniel D'Amico, Benjamin Darrington, Helene Haabegaard, Jack Parker
 * Passed: Eduard Braun, Marco Brun del Re, Dmitry Chernikov, Nick Curott, Benjamin Eberlei, Martin Fronek, Karl Gregory, Daniel Halvarsson, Juliusz Jablecki, Robert Orndofff, Robert Rahn, Max Raskin, Nathan Shore, Alex Weller

Mises University 2006
53 candidates; 23 admitted to the oral exam after written test
 * Honors: Aaron Singleton, Philipp Bagus, Philip Ruijs, Carl Jacobsson, Jack Parker, David Heinrich, Mateusz Machaj
 * Passed: Daniel Carreiro, Tomasz Maslanka, Anthony Gregory, Elliot Olson, Matt Simpson, Manny Glover, Manuel Abalo, Amadeus Gabriel, Eric Phillips, Marcin Zielinski

Mises University 2005
34 candidates; oral exam results
 * Honors: Pavel Chalupnicek, Devin Gould, Juliusz Jablecki, Randall McElroy
 * Passed: Jan Krepelka, Geoffrey Plauche, Mike Dougherty, Allan Medwick, Marissa Slany, William Mullen, Ron Brown, Lukasz Szostak, Daniel Halvarsson, Christopher Byrnes, Art Moy, Francis Dumouchel, Rafael Raciborski, David Heinrich, David van der Goes

Mises University 2004
Session Two overall results (out of 28): H-5, P-10 (P=Passed; H=Passed with Honors)
 * Honors: Lisa Casanova, Matt Machaj, Jacob Lyles, Peter van Maanen, Barret Snipes
 * Passed: Remigijus Simasius, Daniel D'Amico, Anthony Batty, David Skarbek, Bretigne Shaffer, Cameron Carswell, Miloslav Zajicek, Matt Bower, Jeffrey Zhang, Pawel Skrzynecki

Session One overall results (out of 16): H-1, P-6 Honors: Adam Martin Passed: David Heinrich, Rafal Raciborski, Simon Bilo, Ale Hartmann, Aaron Gunn, Harry David

Mises University 2003
Overall results (out of 23): H-2, P-7
 * Honors: Juan Fernando Carpio, Lucas Engelhardt
 * Passed: Juan Fernando Aldana, Peter Anderson, Josh Bachmann, Nicholas Curott, James William Kimball, Andrew Neumann, Braden Robinson

Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2003
Overall results (out of 6): H-2, P-2
 * Honors: Jan Havel, Peter van Maanen
 * Passed: Brad Barlow, Stephen Carson

Mises University 2002
Overall results (out of 34): H-5, P-15
 * Honors: Michael Boyle, Philipp Bagus, Andrew Kashdan, Dag Rowe, Noah Tyler
 * Passed: Bibiana Gomez, Art Carden, Jack Estill, Scott Rosen, Jim Massey, Ben Kelly, Justin Newton, Carl-Magnus Ewerhard, Scott Bushee, Jeremy Livingston, Radek Nemecek, Brad Barlow, Marcus Epstein, Arthur Foulkes, Matus Petrik

Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2002
Overall results (out of 9): H-3, P-3
 * Honors: Philipp Bagus, Oskaari Juurikkala, Matus Petrik
 * Passed: Art Carden, Gustavo Souza, Tibor Silber

Human Action Seminar 2002
Overall results (out of 6): H-1, P-3
 * Honors: Gustavo Matta y Trejo
 * Passed: Jan Havel, Oskaari Juurikkala, Luis Lopez

History of Liberty 2002
Overall results (out of 6): P-2, H-2
 * Honors: Brad Barlow, Jason Jewell
 * Passed: Ed Zeman, Howard Schmidt