Francis Boyer Award

The Francis Boyer Award was the highest honor conferred by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. It was named for Francis Boyer, a chief executive at Smith, Kline & French in the mid-twentieth century and a strong supporter of AEI who died in 1972.[1] The Boyer Award was replaced in 2003 by the Irving Kristol Award.

List of recipients

Year Recipient Nationality Lecture title
1977 Gerald R. Ford American "Toward a Healthy Economy"
1978 Arthur F. Burns Austro-Hungarian
American
"The Condition of the American Economy"
1979 Paul Johnson British "The Things That Are Not Caesar's"
1980 William J. Baroody Sr. American Award given posthumously
1981 Henry Kissinger German
American
"The Realities of Security"
1982 Hanna Holborn Gray American "The Higher Learning and the New Consumerism"
1983 Alan Walters British "The British Renaissance, 1979-?"
1984 Robert H. Bork American "Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law"
1985 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick American "The United States and the World: Setting Limits"
1986 David Packard American "Management of America's National Defense"
1987 Paul A. Volcker American "Public Service: The Quiet Crisis"
1988 Ronald Reagan American "Freedom and Vigilance"
1989 Antonin Scalia American
1990 Thomas Sowell American "Cultural Diversity: A World View"
1991 Irving Kristol American "The Capitalist Future"
1993 Dick Cheney American "Getting Our Priorities Right"
1994 Carlos Salinas de Gortari Mexican
1995 George F. Will American "The Cultural Contradictions of Conservatism"
1996 Alan Greenspan American "The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society"
1997 James Q. Wilson American "Two Nations"
1999 Michael Novak American "God's Country: Taking the Declaration Seriously"
2000 Christopher DeMuth American "After the Ascent: Politics and Government in the Super-Affluent Society"
2001 Clarence Thomas American "Be Not Afraid"
2002 Norman Podhoretz American "America at War: The One Thing Needful"

References

  1. ^ "Great American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century". Harvard Business School. Retrieved 31 March 2009.