WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a national educational
organization headquartered in Wilmington, DE, is pleased to announce the
winners of the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards, presented annually to
scholars under forty who have produced the very best books and articles in
the field of humane economics and culture over the past two years. The
Templeton Enterprise Awards are some of the largest in the publishing
industry, with almost $100,000 in total prize money up for grabs, the top
book author garnering $50,000 in prize money, and the top article author
$25,000.
This year's winners are a diverse group of intellectuals who represent a
wide variety of approaches to the study of economics, culture, and their
dynamic relationship in our age of globalization. They received their prizes
last night at a special awards dinner at the Princeton Club of New York City
which featured keynote speaker Dr. Bruce Cole, chairman of the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Here are the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Award
winners:
1st Place Book The Church and the Market (Lexington Books, 2005)
Thomas E. Woods Jr., senior fellow in history, The
Ludwig von Mises Institute
2nd Place Cowboy Capitalism (CATO Books, 2004)
Olaf Gersemann, foreign news editor, the
Financial Times Deutschland
3rd Place The Ethics of the Market (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
John Meadowcroft, professor of public policy, King's
College, London.
1st Place Article "Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion and Public Choice"
Review of Political Economy, 2005.
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.
Kevin Schmiesing, research fellow, The Acton
Institute
3rd Place "What Makes a Market Economy," New Political Economy,
June 2005.
Matthew Watson, professor of political economy,
University of Warwick, UK
For more information about the Templeton Enterprise Awards, including
opportunities for interviews with this year's awardees, please contact the
program's director, Dr. Rich Brake, at (800) 526-7022 ext. 123 or
rbrake@isi.org. Further details on ISI's Culture of Enterprise Initiative
can be found at http://www.cultureofenterprise.org.
Contact: Caitlin Anderson
(800) 526-7022 x168
media@isi.org
SOURCE Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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http://www.cultureofenterprise.org
CONTACT:
Caitlin Anderson, Intercollegiate Studies
Institute, +1-800- 526-7022 x168, media@isi.org
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