Milwaukee, WI – The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation has announced that Dr. Samuel Gregg, the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research, is a 2024 Bradley Prize winner.
Now in its 20th year, the Bradley Prize is awarded to individuals whose extraordinary work exemplifies the Foundation’s mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. Gregg will receive the award at the Bradley Prizes ceremony on Tuesday, May 21st at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
“Few articulate the importance of free enterprise and ordered liberty better than Sam,” said Rick Graber, president and CEO of The Bradley Foundation. “His scholarship has contributed immensely to the defense of free enterprise, particularly at a time when it is being significantly challenged. Sam’s work reflects the values of the Foundation’s namesakes, who were unquestionably committed to ensuring that future generations have the ability to innovate and grow a business, just as they did. We are pleased to honor Sam, who is well-deserving of the Bradley Prize.”
As in the past, this year’s award winners were chosen by the Bradley Prizes Selection Committee, after careful review of over 60 distinguished nominations. Each award carries a stipend of $250,000.
“To receive the Bradley Prize was both a great surprise and a great honor,” Gregg said. “At a time when economic liberty, free markets, and constitutionally limited government are under enormous pressure in America and the rest of the world, the Prize is a tremendous spur to continue defending and promoting some of the principles and institutions that underlie the free economy as well as America’s civilizational experiment in liberty.”
A distinguished public intellectual, Gregg is one of the country’s leading scholars of political economy and ordered liberty. He is a prolific author of sixteen books, as well as over 700 published articles, essays, reviews, and opinion pieces that have appeared in U.S., British, European, and Australian media and journals. His most recent book, The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, was released in October 2022.
Gregg is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He served as President of the Philadelphia Society. He is an Affiliate Scholar at the Acton Institute and a Contributing Editor at Law & Liberty. He is a member of the academic advisory boards of several U.S., European, Australian, and Latin American research centers, think-tanks, and journals. He also served as a member of the Michigan Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission.
