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.

Panel of Judges (PDF)

The nomination form can be found here (pdf). An online nomination form is also available.

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 cofe@isi.org.

Location: New York City University Club
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

2006 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

Location: New York City Princeton Club
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