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Book Awards and Other Awards Won by the Independent Institute

Since its founding in 1987, the Independent Institute has won numerous awards for its many books, videos, and other programs, as well as by its many Fellows.

The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society

2017 Marc Andreessen Bookshelf

  • #23 out of 281 books
Certificate of Excellence, Awarded by TIAA-CREF
Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor, 2000

Awarded to Shawn Everett Kantor and Price V. Fishback for their book, A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation, based in part on their article, “How Minnesota Adopted Workers’ Compensation,” in the Independent Institute’s quarterly journal, The Independent Review (Spring 1998, vol. II, no. 4, pp. 557-578)

4M: Highest Rating for Ethics in Social and Public Policy
The Independent Institute, 2000

Awarded in 2000 by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, University of Santa Clara to the Independent Institute.

American Health Care
Government, Market Processes and the Public Interest

EconLib.org

  • One of the Five Best Books on Health Care
Best Paper Award
Bruce L. Benson, 1999

Awarded by the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) to Bruce L. Benson, Independent Institute Senior Fellow and author of To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice, for his paper, “Market Alternatives for Crime Control: Entrepreneurial Responses to Government Failure,” Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 1998, pages 1-19.

Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology

Amazon.com

  • #1 Bestseller in Antitrust
Templeton Honor Rolls Award on Education in a Free Society
Robert Higgs, 1998

Awarded to Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy, the Independent Institute; author, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government.

Templeton Honor Rolls Award on Education in a Free Society
Robert Higgs, 1998

Awarded to Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy, the Independent Institute; author, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

To Serve and Protect
Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice

2000 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award (Awarded by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation)

  • Winner in “Old Institute” Category
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

1994 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award (Awarded by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation)

  • Third Place

1994 Mencken Award

  • Finalist for Best Book
Mencken Award Finalist for Best Editorial
Richard K. Vedder, 1994

Awarded by the Free Press Association for the article “Immigration Doesn’t Displace Natives”, by Richard K. Vedder, The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 1994

Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education
E. C. Pasour, Jr., 1988

Awarded by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge to E. C. Pasour, Jr., Independent Institute Research Fellow; Author, Agriculture and the State: Market Processes and Bureaucracy.



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