Adam Smith Prize
The Adam Smith Award (English: Adam Smith Award ) is a science award in economics . The award, presented annually by the National Association for Business Economics since 1982, is in memory of the economist Adam Smith . The President of the Society selects the candidate who has distinguished himself as a leader in the profession and whose ideas and knowledge are applied. The award winner holds a lecture at the award ceremony as part of the annual members' meeting.
Prize winners and lecture titles
- 1982 - Herbert Stein ( American Enterprise Institute and University of Virginia ): Conservatives, Economists and Neckties
- 1983 - Charles P. Kindleberger ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ): Was Adam Smith a Monetarist or a Keynesian?
- 1984 - Karl Brunner ( University of Rochester ): The Poverty of Nations
- 1985 - Robert M. Solow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): The Unemployment of Nations
- 1986 - Paul McCracken ( University of Michigan ): Reluctant to Prosper
- 1987 - George Stigler ( University of Chicago ): The Effect of Government on Economic Efficiency
- 1988 - James M. Buchanan ( George Mason University ): On the Structure of An Economy: A Reemphasis of Some Classical Foundations
- 1989 - Milton Friedman ( Hoover Institution ): The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community
- 1990 - James Tobin ( Yale University ): Living and Trading with Japan
- 1991 - Gary Becker (University of Chicago): Education, Labor Force Quality and the Econom
- 1992 - Václav Klaus ( Czech Republic ): The Transformation of Eastern Europe
- 1993 - Martin S. Feldstein ( National Bureau of Economic Research ): Rethinking Tax Policy
- 1994 - Douglass North ( Washington University ): Economic Theory in a Dynamic Economic World
- 1995 - Paul Krugman ( Stanford University ): What Difference Does Globalization Make?
- 1996 - Murray Weidenbaum (Washington University): An Ambitious Agenda for Economic Growth
- 1997 - Michael E. Porter ( Harvard Business School ): Location, Clusters, and the 'New' Microeconomics of Competition
- 1998 - Michael Boskin (Stanford University): Capitalism and its Discontents
- 1999 - Alan Blinder ( Brookings Institution ): How the Economy Came to Resemble the Model
- 2000 - Alice Rivlin (Brookings Institutions): The Challenge of Affluence
- 2001 - Henry Kaufman ( Henry Kaufman & Co ): What Would Adam Smith Say Now?
- 2002 - George Kaufman ( Loyola University Chicago ), Edward J. Kane ( Boston College ), George Benston ( Emory University ): The Use of Economic Analysis to Affect Public Economic Policy , What Economic Principles Should Policymakers in Other Countries Have Learned from the S&L Mess , How Much Regulation of Financial Services Do We Really Need?
- 2003 - Allan Meltzer ( Carnegie Mellon University ): Leadership and Progress
- 2004 - Lawrence Klein ( University of Pennsylvania ): The State of Economic Linkages: A Retrospective and Prospective View
- 2005 - Dale Jorgenson (Harvard University): Potential Growth of the US Economy: Will the Productivity Resurgence Continue?
- 2006 - William Poole ( Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ): The Monetary Policy Model
- 2007 - John B. Taylor (Stanford University) The Explanatory Power of Monetary Policy Rules
- 2008 - Michael Mussa ( Peterson Institute for International Economics ): Adam Smith and the Political Economy of a Modern Financial Crisis
- 2009 - Lawrence Summers (National Economic Council): Principles for Economic Recovery and Renewal
- 2010 - Janet Yellen (Federal Reserve Board): Macroprudential Supervision and Monetary Policy in the Post-crisis World
- 2011 - Kenneth S. Rogoff (Harvard University): Long Run Implications of a Euro Implosion for the Global Monetary System
- 2012 - George Soros (Soros Fund Management, Institute for New Economic Thinking): A New Economic Thinking
- 2013 - Roger Ferguson (TIAA-CREF): Financial Services and the Trust Deficit: Why the Industry Should Make Better Governance a Top Priority
- 2014 - Ben Bernanke (Brookings Institution): A Conversation between Ben Bernanke and Kai Ryssdal
- 2015 - Ed Prescott (Arizona State University): Northern America's Production of Technology Capital is Transforming the World Economy
- 2016 - William R. White (OECD): Ultra-Easy Money: Digging the Hole Deeper?
- 2017 - Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago): Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Role of Central Banks
- 2018 - Carmen Reinhart (Harvard Kennedy School): Financial Crises: Past and Future
- 2019 - Arthur B. Laffer (Laffer Associates): Supply-Side Economics
Web links
- Official website at NABE