STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hoover Institution announced today that John B. Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford, has been given the 2016 Adam Smith Award by the Association of Private Enterprise Education.
“I have long admired the Association of Private Enterprise Education,” stated Taylor. “It’s always a privilege to have your work recognized, but it’s a true honor to be given this distinguished award.”
Taylor was honored on Sunday, April 3, 2016, at the opening dinner of the association’s annual conference in Las Vegas. His acceptance speech was entitled “Keep On Revealing the Invisible Hand through Education.” The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) is a group of teachers and scholars from colleges and universities, public policy institutes, and industry with an interest in studying and supporting the system of private enterprise.
“Taylor has worked tirelessly to advance free market principles,” concluded Tom Gilligan, the Director of the Hoover Institution. “And his research has had meaningful impact on economic policy. We applaud those who continue to recognize his important work.”
The Adam Smith Award is the highest honor bestowed by the APEE Education to recognize an individual who has made a sustained and lasting contribution to the perpetuation of the ideals of a free market economy as first laid out in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. The recipient is a person who has acquired an international reputation as an eloquent scholar and advocate of free enterprise and the system of entrepreneurship that underlies it. In searching for a recipient, APEE looks for someone who, through their writing, speaking, and professional life, has focused attention on the fundamental principles that are the bulwark of its organization.
Previous Adam Smith Award recipients include Nobel Prize winners Douglass North, Vernon Smith, James Buchanan and Elinor Ostrom, as well as other distinguished economists including Allan Meltzer, Robert Barro, Alan Greenspan, Walter Williams, Murray Weidenbaum, and William Easterly.
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