You know there are many tasks that are associated with putting together this conference that I'm not exactly fond of but this task awarding prizes for the best articles in Austrian economics and libertarian scholarship respectively is really the most delightful task of the director of the conference.
Without further ado, I'd like to announce the awards. The Ludwig von Mises Institute's
O.P. Alford III Prize, which is for the scholarly article published during 2011 that best advances
libertarian scholarship, is hereby awarded to Thorsten Polite and Jonathan Mariano for
their article in Libertarian Papers, Volume 3, Credit Default Swaps from the Viewpoint
of Libertarian Property Rights and Contract Theory.
Ladies and gentlemen, as you might expect, it is an unexpected event for me.
And I would like to say thank you very much, I really didn't expect that such an honour would go to us and I take it as an encouragement to continue, to contribute and to spread the Austrian School of Economics. Thank you so much.
The Ludwig von Mises Institute's prize, Lawrence A. Furtig Prize, is for the scholarly article published during 2012 that best advances economic science in the Austrian tradition, and it is hereby awarded to Malavika Nair for her article, Money or Money Substitutes, Implications of Celgene's Small Change Challenge. It was published in the Corley Journal of Austrian Economics.
Thank you. Thank you, Joe. I'd just like to thank Joe Salerno for encouraging me to write this article, and I did this, I guess, two years ago while I was a summer fellow. So, for giving me the summer fellowship and to have the time to really work on this paper, and for everybody that I had discussions with. So many people here, so thank you, everybody.
Thank you very much.