The Adam Smith Award
The NABE President selects the Adam Smith Award recipient based upon leadership in the profession and the use of ideas and knowledge in the workplace and policy arena. The recipient delivers a lecture at NABE’s annual meeting. The lecture is printed in a subsequent issue of Business Economics.
| 1982 | Herbert Stein AEI 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 W. McCracken University of Michigan |
“Reluctant to Prosper” | |
| 1987 | George J. 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 The Hoover Institution |
“The Suicidal Impulse
of the Business Community” Speech |
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| 1990 | James Tobin Yale University |
“Living and Trading with Japan” | |
| 1991 | Gary S. Becker University of Chicago |
“Education, Labor Force Quality and the Economy” | |
| 1992 | Vaclav Klaus Czech Republic |
“The Transformation of Eastern Europe” | |
| 1993 | Martin Feldstein National Bureau of Economic Research |
“Rethinking Tax Policy” | |
| 1994 | Douglass C. North Washington University |
“Economic Theory in a Dynamic Economic World” | |
| 1995 | Paul R. Krugman Stanford University |
"What Difference Does Globalization Make?" | |
| 1996 | Murray L. 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 J. Boskin Stanford University |
“Capitalism and its Discontents” | |
| 1999 | Alan S. Blinder The Brookings Institution |
"How the Economy Came to Resemble the Model" | |
| 2000 | Alice Rivlin The Brookings Institutions |
"The Challenge of Affluence" | |
| 2001 | Henry Kaufman Henry Kaufman & Co |
"What Would Adam Smith Say Now?" | |
| 2002 | George Kaufman Loyola University of 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?" |
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| 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 U.S. 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 Rogoff Harvard University |
"Long Run Implications of a Euro Implosion for the Global Monetary System" | |
