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Mises Institute Awards

Mises Institute Awards

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The 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.

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

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

The Douglas E. French Prize: $2,500 for the student who emerges from the Mises University oral examinations with the best record, as chosen by the examining committee.

  • 2007: Benjamin Darrington of Yale University
  • 2006: Mateusz Machaj of the 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.

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

  • 2006: Robert L. Luddy, Econ-Air, Inc.

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

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

Mündliche Prüfung Conference Examinations (P=Passed; H=Passed with Honors)

  • Mises University 2007 overall results
    • 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
    • Douglas French Prize for Most Learned ($2,500): Benjamin Darrington
    • George and Joele Eddy Prize, Second Place ($1000): Helene Haabegaard
    • George and Joele Eddy Prize, Third Place ($500): Jack Parker
  • Mises University 2006 overall results
    • 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
    • Douglas French Prize for most learned ($2,500): Mateusz Machaj
  • Mises University 2005, overall results (out of 34) H-4, P-15
    • 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
    • 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
  • Mises University 2004, 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

The Frank T. and Harriet Kurzweg Award: The Kurzweg Award alternated each year for five years between a senior and junior scholar who produced an important piece of writing that has advanced the ideals in honor of which the prize was established: personal liberty, private property, and individual responsibility. ($5000).

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