The Association of Private Enterprise Education is a nonprofit organization. It was founded by a philanthropic donation from

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.The Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies
It was created for the purpose of "studying and supporting the system of private enterprise". It aims "to put into action accurate and objective understandings of private enterprise". It holds an annual conference.Art Carden
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Journal of Private Enterprise The ''Journal of Private Enterprise'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published by the Association of Private Enterprise Education. It was established in 1985 and appears twice a year. Edward Stringham (Fayetteville State Univers ...

''. It also recognizes, by means of a number of awards, persons of distinction who have helped to further its aims.

Former presidents

* Edward Stringham *

Benjamin Powell Benjamin W. "Ben" Powell (born 1978) is the director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and Professor of Economics at Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business. He is also a junior fellow at the Independent Institut ...

Jeff Ray Clark Jeff Ray Clark is an American economist specializing in public finance, public choice, and managerial economics. He is the Scott L. Probasco, Jr. Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Education A native of W ...

* Bruce L. Benson * Michael Cox *

Bruce Yandle Bruce Yandle (born August 12, 1933) is Dean Emeritus of Clemson University's College of Business and Behavioral Science and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at t ...

Jane Shaw Jane Alison Shaw (born 1963) is Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Professor of the History of Religion, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. Previously she was Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of Religiou ...

Gordon Tullock Gordon Tullock (; February 13, 1922 – November 3, 2014) was an economist and professor of law and Economics at the George Mason University School of Law. He is best known for his work on public choice theory, the application of economic thinki ...

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