Awards
The Independent Institute is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Mencken Awards, seven Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Awards, the Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association, two IPPY Awards from Independent Publisher Magazine, and a 4M Highest Rating for Ethics in Social and Public Policy from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
Other awards have included those to Senior Fellow Ivan Eland who received the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic in 2004, and Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa who was awarded the Freedom of Expression Award from the Organization of Ibero-American Journalists in 2003, 2006 Annual Juan Bautista Alberdi Award from the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research, and Young Global Leader for 2007 from the World Economic Forum. Senior Fellow Bruce Benson received the 2006 Adam Smith Award, Research Analyst Gabriel Gasave received the Freedom Award for Brave Defense of Liberty from the Fundacion Atlas, and Senior Fellow Robert Higgs received the 1998 Templeton Honor Rolls Award on Education in a Free Society, 2006 Friedrich von Wieser Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education, 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties, 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty, and 2007 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty.
In addition, the Institute's book by Robert Higgs, Depression, War, and Cold War, was selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book and by Society Magazine as the Social Science Book of the Month. The Institute's book edited by Gabriel Roth, Street Smart, was designated by Planetizen as “Top 10” Book for 2007 in Urban Planning, Design, and Development Community, and Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, by Donald Downs, received the Peter Shaw Memorial Award for 2006.
In 2010 the Independent Institute won the Templeton Freedom Award in the category of Free Market Solutions to Poverty for publishing the book, Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit.
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