Adam-Smith-Preis

Der Adam-Smith-Preis (englisch: Adam Smith Award) ist ein Wissenschaftspreis in Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Die seit 1982 jährlich von der National Association for Business Economics vergebene Auszeichnung steht im Gedenken an den Ökonomen Adam Smith. Der Präsident der Gesellschaft kürt den Kandidaten, der sich als Führungspersönlichkeit im Berufsstand hervorgetan hat und dessen Ideen und Wissen Anwendung finden. Der Preisträger hält bei der Preisübergabe im Rahmen des jährlichen Treffens der Mitglieder eine Vorlesung.

Preisträger und Vorlesungstitel

1982 – Herbert Stein (American Enterprise Institute und 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 McCracken (University of Michigan): Reluctant to Prosper
1987 – George 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 (Hoover Institution): The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community
1990 – James Tobin (Yale University): Living and Trading with Japan
1991 – Gary Becker (University of Chicago): Education, Labor Force Quality and the Econom
1992 – Václav Klaus (Tschechische Republik): The Transformation of Eastern Europe
1993 – Martin S. Feldstein (National Bureau of Economic Research): Rethinking Tax Policy
1994 – Douglass North (Washington University): Economic Theory in a Dynamic Economic World
1995 – Paul Krugman (Stanford University): What Difference Does Globalization Make?
1996 – Murray 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 Boskin (Stanford University): Capitalism and its Discontents
1999 – Alan Blinder (Brookings Institution): How the Economy Came to Resemble the Model
2000 – Alice Rivlin (Brookings Institutions): The Challenge of Affluence
2001 – Henry Kaufman (Henry Kaufman & Co): What Would Adam Smith Say Now?
2002 – George G. Kaufman (Loyola University 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?
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 S. Rogoff (Harvard University): Long Run Implications of a Euro Implosion for the Global Monetary System
2012 – George Soros (Soros Fund Management, Institute for New Economic Thinking): A New Economic Thinking
2013 – Roger Ferguson (TIAA-CREF): Financial Services and the Trust Deficit: Why the Industry Should Make Better Governance a Top Priority
2014 – Ben Bernanke (Brookings Institution): A Conversation between Ben Bernanke and Kai Ryssdal
2015 – Ed Prescott (Arizona State University): Northern America's Production of Technology Capital is Transforming the World Economy
2016 – William R. White (OECD): Ultra-Easy Money: Digging the Hole Deeper?
2017 – Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago): Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Role of Central Banks
2018 – Carmen Reinhart (Harvard Kennedy School): Financial Crises: Past and Future
2019 – Arthur B. Laffer (Laffer Associates): Supply-Side Economics
2020 – Susan Athey (Stanford University): Artificial Intelligence and the Economic Recovery
2021 – Hal Varian (Google Inc.): Economics at Google: The First Ten Years
2022 – John A. List (University of Chicago): The Science Is Calling Ideas
2023 – Hélène Rey (London Business School): Global Financial Cycle and the Role of the Dollar
2024 – Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics), Steven D. Levitt (University of Chicago)

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