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: 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

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

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