Templeton Enterprise Awards
With the awarding of this year's Culture of Enterprise winners in June 2011, this will conclude this very successful five-year educational and publishing initiative. ISI wishes to thank all of the young scholars who participated in the program.
Important Dates
- 2010 Winners Announced: June 14, 2011
The prestigious Templeton Enterprise Awards are given annually to the best books and articles published in the previous year on the culture of enterprise. The awards are designed to encourage young scholars (thirty-nine or younger at the time of publication) to explore and illuminate the process by which economics and culture are related throughout the world. Individual award amounts exceed those of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
| Book Awards | |
|---|---|
| First Place | $50,000 |
| Second Place | $7,500 |
| Third Place | $2,500 |
| Article Awards | |
|---|---|
| First Place | $25,000 |
| Second Place | $3,000 |
| Third Place | $2,000 |
Edited collections and books or articles with more than two authors are not eligible for consideration. Works of fiction or poetry are also not eligible for these awards.
For more information about the Templeton Enterprise Awards, please contact the program's director, Dr. Rich Brake, at cofe@isi.org.
2010 Templeton Enterprise Award Winners
Location: Philadelphia Marriott West
Date: June 14, 2011
| 2010 Templeton Enterprise Book Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge University Press, 2009) By Dr. Ryan Hanley, Associate Professor of Political Science |
| 2nd Place | Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is The Solution and Not The Problem (Harper Collins, 2009) By Dr. Jay W. Richards, Senior Fellow, The Discovery Institute |
| 3rd Place | After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington (Encounter Books, 2009) By Ms. Nicole Gelinas, Searle Freedom Trust Fellow, The Manhattan Institute |
| 2010 Templeton Enterprise Article Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | “Market Exchange, Self-Interest, and the Common Good: Financial Crisis and Moral Economy” Journal of Markets and Morality, 2010 By Dr. Darrin Snyder Belousek, Lecturer in Philosophy, Ohio Northern University |
| 2nd Place | “The Financial Crisis and the Scientific Mindset” The New Atlantis, 2009–10 By Mr. Paul Cella, Editor of the Blog What's Wrong With The World |
| 3rd Place | “Why are Some Places Rich While Others are Poor? The Institutional Necessity of Economic Freedom” Economic Affairs, 2010 (with Art Carden) And “The Virtue of Business: How Markets Encourage Ethical Behavior” Journal of Markets and Morality, 2010 (with Rachel Kotkin and Scott Beaulier) By Dr. Joshua Hall, Assistant Professor of Economics, Beloit College |
2009 Templeton Enterprise Award Winners
Location: The Harvard Club of New York City
Date: April 6, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Brian Domitrovic, Author of Econoclasts (ISI Books, 2009)
| 2009 Templeton Enterprise Book Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology (Encounter Books, 2008) By Eric Cohen, Adjunct Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center |
| 2nd Place | Shopclass as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (The Penguin Press, 2009) By Matthew Crawford, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia |
| 3rd Place | Hayek and Natural Law (Routledge, 2007) By Erik Angner, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Economics, University of Alabama |
| 2009 Templeton Enterprise Article Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | “A Kanitian Critique of Antitrust: On Morality and Microsoft” The Journal of Private Enterprise, Spring 2007 By Mark D. White, Professor of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island CUNY |
| 2nd Place | “The Market as Social Space: On the Meaningful Extraeconomic Conversations that can Occur in Markets” The Review of Austrian Economics, January 2008 By Virgil Henry Storr, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Graduate Student Programs, Mercatus Center |
| 3rd Place | “The Ethical Basis for Taxation in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas” The Journal of Markets and Morality, Spring 2008 By Christopher Todd Meredith, Visiting Professor in Philosophy, Tulane University |
2008 Templeton Enterprise Award Winners
Location: University Club, New York, NY
Date: November 18, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Larry Kudlow, CNBC's Kudlow & Company
| 2008 Templeton Enterprise Book Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money (Wiley, 2006) By Timothy P. Carney, Editor of the Evans-Novak Political Report and a columnist for the Washington Examiner |
| 2st Place | Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective (Routledge, 2004) By Luigino Bruini, Associate Professor of Economics, University Milano Bicocca, Italy |
| 3rd Place | Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship (University of Missouri Press, 2006) By Michael Chan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College |
| 2008 Templeton Enterprise Article Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | “Shopclass as Soulcraft” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 2006 By Matthew B. Crawford, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia |
| 2nd Place | “Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism” The New Atlantis, 2006 By Eric Cohen, Adjunct Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center |
| 3rd Place | “The Market and the Pursuit of Happiness” Society, 2006 By Darrin M. McMahon, Professor of History, Florida State University |
2007 Templeton Enterprise Award Winners
Location:University Club, New York, NY
Date: October 30, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Dr. John Rutledge, Fox News Channel's Forbes on Fox
| 2007 Templeton Enterprise Book Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006) By Dr. James Otteson, Director of the Undergraduate Honors Program, Yeshiva University |
| 2st Place | The Commercial Society: Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age (Lexington Books, 2007) By Dr. Samuel Gregg, Director of Research, Acton Institute |
| 3rd Place | Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860 (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) By Dr. Tom Downey, Assistant Editor for the Papers of Thomas Jefferson Project, Princeton University |
| 2007 Templeton Enterprise Article Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | “Adam Smith, the Concept of Leisure, and the Division of Labor” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 2006 By Mr. Brian Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Government,Georgetown University |
| 2nd Place | “Natural Law and Modern Economic Theory” Journal of Markets and Morality, 2005 By Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riano, Associate Professor of Government, Regent University |
2006 Templeton Enterprise Award Winners
Location: Princeton Club, New York, NY
Date: February 13, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
| 2006 Templeton Enterprise Book Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | The Church and the Market (Lexington Books, 2005) By Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Senior Fellow in History, Mises Institute |
| 2nd Place | Cowboy Capitalism (CATO Books, 2004) By Olaf Gersemann, Foreign News Editor, Financial Times Deutschland |
| 3rd Place | The Ethics of the Market (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) By John Meadowcroft, Professor of Public Policy, King's College, London |
| 2006 Templeton Enterprise Article Award Winners | |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | “Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion and Public Choice” Review of Political Economy, 2005 By Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics, George Mason University & Edward Stringham, Professor of Economics, San Jose State University |
| 2nd Place | “Another Social Justice Tradition” University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 2005 By Kevin Schmiesing, Research Fellow, Acton Institute |
| 3rd Place | “What Makes a Market Economy” New Political Economy, June 2005 By Matthew Watson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, UK |
