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2007 Adam Smith Award for
Entrepreneurship 
Peter A. Thiel is a prominent American entrepreneur and philanthropist. His life and his profoundly important contributions to the new world of e-commerce and the global financial market have exemplified the American Dream.
In 1998 he co-founded the online payment company PayPal, which has facilitated a revolution in internet capitalism through providing instant and secure market transactions for e-buyers and sellers.
After selling PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002, Thiel launched a global macro hedge fund company, Clarium Capital Management, which has equally demonstrated his entrepreneurship and creativity. In 2005, Clarium was honored as the global macro fund of the year by MarHedge and Absolute Return. Thiel’s innovative approach to macro investing became the subject of a chapter in Steve Drobny’s book, Inside the House of Money.
Peter
Thiel is also a dedicated advocate of liberty. He became interested in the
freedom philosophy as a teenager. While a student at
In his writings and appearances in the media Peter Thiel is an eloquent and insightful spokesman for individual freedom and the power of market forces when left free to work.
He
holds a B.A. in philosophy from
2007 Adam Smith Award for Excellence in Free-Market Education
His clear
and straight-forward conception of the proper role of government, private
property, individual rights, and free markets is a hallmark of his
profound contributions to classical liberalism and free-market
education. Richard
Epstein is the author of numerous articles and 16 books, including Takings: Private Property and the
Power of Eminent Domain, Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case
for Classical Liberalism, Principles
for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good,
and
Simple Rules for a Complex World. Richard
Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at
the 
Richard A. Epstein
is
a brilliant and influential legal scholar. A self-described classical
liberal, he consistently provides a powerful intellectual defense of
private property rights and constitutionally limited government.
Born
in
And indeed
his intellect and hard work led him to challenge those New Deal ideas.
While an undergraduate at
Master of Ceremonies
Dr. Williams
praises capitalism as the most moral and productive system man has ever
devised. Prior to capitalism, he explains, “the way people amassed great
wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man.
Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.”
A native of
In 2006, the Foundation for Economic
Education was privileged to recognize Dr. Walter E. Williams with the Adam
Smith Award for Excellence in Free-Market Education.
A native of
Walter E. Williams is
one of
Richard M. Ebeling continues the tradition of
leadership at the Foundation for Economic Education started by Leonard E.
Read in 1946. In his four years as FEE’s president Richard has revitalized
and expanded the Foundation’s unique educational outreach and brought it
to new international heights.
He has not
only written and lectured about liberty, he has also lived it. In 1991,
while consulting on market reform in the Soviet Union, he joined the
defenders of freedom and faced the Soviet tanks in
Dr.
Ebeling has written and edited numerous articles and books including
Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom. He
appears regularly on radio shows and lectures widely in the
