Annual Lectures

On the occasion of the Institut's 5th anniversary in 1995, the Liberální Institut Annual Award "for the contribution to the development of liberal thoughts and for the promotion of ideas of freedom, private property, competition and rule of law in practice" was awarded for the first time. The institute's Academic Advisory Board decides each year on the recipient of the prize. The laureate is then expected to give the Liberální Institut Annual Lecture.

Laureates of the Liberální Institut Annual Award

1995	Gary S. Becker (1992 Nobel Prize in economic science, professor of economics, University of Chicago) Human Capital and Economic Growth
1997	Milton Friedman (1976 Nobel Prize in economic science, professor of economics, Hoover Institution, Stanford) Free Market in a Free Society
1998	Roger Douglas (former Minister of Finance of New Zealand, author of extensive liberal economic reforms - Rogernomics) - (his book published in English by Liberalni institut here) The Evaluation Criteria of a Successful Economic Reform
1999	Hans Tietmeyer (president of Deutsche Bundesbank, 1993 - 1999) The Impact of European Monetary Union on Transition Economies
2000	Grigory Yavlinsky (chairman of the Russian liberal movement Yabloko) Russia: A Thorny Way to Freedom and to the Rule of Law
2001	Michael Novak (Christian philosopher and economist, 1994 Templeton Prize laureate) Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions
2002	James Buchanan (1986 Nobel Prize in economic science, professor of economics, George Mason University) Constitutional Changes and their Impact upon the Economies
2003	Pascal Salin (professor of economics, Universite Paris-Dauphine, former president of the Mont Pelerin Society) Private Property, Competition and the EU
2004	Antonio Martino (professor of economics) Freedom, Prosperity and Security
2005	José Piňera (former Chile's Secretary of Labor and Pensions) Succesfull Pension Reform and Lessons for Europe
2006	Mart Laar (former Estonian Prime Minister) E-politics: road to small government (Video avalable here)
2007	Sam Peltzman (professor of economics) Regulation and the Wealth of Nations