Created in 1974, the Olive W. Garvey Fellowships were offered biennially from 1982 until 2007. Since 2008 the contest has been sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and is now annual.

2008 Templeton Fellowship Winners

Essay Topic

For decades social critics in the United States and throughout the Western world have complained that “property” rights too often take precedence over “human” rights, with the result that people are treated unequally and have unequal opportunities. Inequality exists in any society. But the purported conflict between property rights and human rights is a mirage—property rights are human rights.
—Armen Alchian, “Property Rights” in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
           
Are property rights human rights? How are they related? What are their similarities and differences? If property rights are human rights, why have they enjoyed fewer legal protections and intellectual champions than other human rights?

Junior Faculty Member Winners

First Prize	($10,000)	Daniel Pellerin, National University of Singapore
Second Prize	($5,000)	Philipp Bagus, Rey Juan Carlos University
Third Prize	($1,500)	Gregory Randolph, Southern New Hampshire University

Student Winners

First Prize	($2,500)	Michaël Bauwens, University of Ghent
Second Prize	($1,500)	David Howden, Rey Juan Carlos University
Third Prize	($1,000)	Kai Jäger, San José State University

Judges