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
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Jim Rogers |
| 2009 | Jesus Huerta de Soto |
| 2008 | Pascal Salin |
| 2007 | Robert Higgs |
| 2006 | Hans-Hermann Hoppe |
| 2005 | William H. Peterson |
| 2004 | Hans F. Sennholz |
| 2003 | Ron Paul |
| 2002 | Bettina Bien Greaves |
| 2001 | Antony GN Flew |
| 2000 | Ralph Raico |
| 1999 | Otto von Habsburg |
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.
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Ron Paul |
| 2006 | David Gordon |
| 2005 | Walter Block |
| 2004 | Gary North |
| 2003 | Burton Blumert |
Lawrence W. Fertig Prize in Austrian Economics
$1,000 to the author of a paper that best advances economic science in the Austrian tradition.
| Year | Recipient | Title of winning paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Mateusz Machaj | "Market Socialism and the Property Problem: Different Perspectives of the Socialist Calculation Debate" |
| 2007 | Renaud Fillieule | "The 'Value-Riches' Model: An Alternative to Garrison's Model in the Austrian Macroeconomics of Growth and Cycle" |
| 2005 | Samuel Bostaph | "Wieser on Economic Calculation under Socialism" |
| 2003 | Nikolay Gertchev | "The Case Against Currency Boards" |
| 2001 | Joseph Salerno | "The Place of Human Action in the Development of Modern Economic Thought" |
O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship
$1,000 to the author of the paper best advances libertarian scholarship.
| Year | Recipient | Title of winning paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Gil Guillory and Patrick C. Tinsley | "The Role of Subscription-Based Patrol and Restitution in the Future of Liberty" |
| 2008 | Robert F. Mulligan | "Time Preference and Property Rights" |
| 2006 | J.G. Hülsmann | "Fact and Counterfactuals in Economic Law" |
| 2004 | Thomas E. Woods | "Symposium on Federalism, War, and Reconstruction" |
| 2002 | Stephan Kinsella | "Against Intellectual Property" |
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.
| Year | Recipient | Recipient's university |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Ed Perry | Indiana University |
| 2008 | David Howden | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
| 2007 | Benjamin Darrington | Yale University |
| 2006 | Mateusz Machaj | University of Wroclaw, Poland |
George and Joele Eddy Prize
$1,000 for the second-highest score on the Mises University examinations, and $500 for the third-highest score.
| Year | 2nd place winner and university | 3rd place winner and university |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | G. P. Manish of Suffolk University | Christopher Oppermann of Holy Spirit Preparatory School |
| 2008 | Gary Danelishen of Auburn University | Gennady Stolyarov of Hillsdale College |
| 2007 | Helene Haabegaard of the University of Copenhagen | Jack Parker of the University of Alabama |
Ludwig von Mises Entrepreneurship Award
Certificate and beautiful inscribed medallion awarded to businesspeople exhibiting entrepreneurial success and devotion to the free-market ideal.
| Year | Recipient | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | James M. Wolfe | Pasco Washington |
| 2006 | Robert L. Luddy | Econ-Air, Inc. |
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.
| Year | Recipient | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Thomas Woods | Meltdown |
| 2008 | Judge Andrew Napolitano | A Nation of Sheep |
Mündliche Prüfung Conference Examinations
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
Austrian Scholars Conference Named Lectures
| Year | Hazlitt | Hayek | Mises | Rothbard | Lou Church | Special Guest Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Caroline Baum | Robert Murphy | Steven Kates | Mark Thornton | Gerard Casey |
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| 2009 | Peter Schiff | George Selgin | Thorsten Polleit | Roberta Modugno | Daniel Lapin | |
| 2008 | Martin Fridson | Lorenzo Infantino | Larry Sechrest | Stephan Kinsella | Laurence Vance | |
| 2007 | Declan McCullagh | Gerald Steele | Antony Mueller | Edward Stringham | William Luckey | |
| 2006 | William L. Anderson | Robert Higgs | Josef Sima | Roderick Long | Robert Murphy | Michael Rozeff |
| 2005 | Alberto Mingardi | Edward Feser | Thomas DiLorenzo | Mark Thornton | Robert Nelson | Martin van Creveld |
| 2004 | Sean Corrigan | Toby Baxendale | Richard Ebeling | Joseph Stromberg | Thomas Woods | Yuri Maltsev |
| 2003 | Gene Callahan | Sudha Shenoy | John Cochran | Butler Shaffer | Timothy Terrell | |
| 2002 | James Bovard | Ronald Hamowy | Paul Cantor | Walter Block | ||
| 2001 | Tom Bethell | Chandran Kukathas | George Reisman | David Gordon | ||
| 2000 | Gene Epstein | Donald Livingston | David Conway | Joseph Salerno | ||
| 1999 | Charles Adams | Roger Backhaus | Morgan Reynolds | Hans-Hermann Hoppe | ||
| 1998 | James Glassman | Jeremy Shearmur | Leland Yeager | Henri LePage | ||
| 1997 | Lectures not named |
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| 1996 | Lectures not named |
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| 1992 | Lectures not named |
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