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Winners of 2018 Mini-Grants on Free Market Economics
Winners of 2018 Mini-Grants on Free Market Economics
Mar 16, 2026 2:56 PM

The Acton Institute Mini-Grants on Free Market Economics program accepts proposals from faculty members at colleges, seminaries, and universities in the United States and Canada in order to promote the scholarship and teaching of market economics. This program allows for collaboration between faculty from different universities, as well as help future leaders to emerge, strengthen, and expand the existing network of scholars within economics. Entrants may submit proposals in two broad categories: course development and faculty scholarship.

Here is plete list of the 2018 winners and their specific projects:

PHIL 3- Intro. to Social-Political Philosophy

Chad Bogosian, Philosophy Instructor, Clovis Community College

CSE- Common Sense Economics

Tawni Ferrarini, Professor of Economic Education, Lindenwood University

Comparative Economic Systems Course Development

Enoch Hill, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wheaton College

Virtue and Markets Course Development

Jason Jewell, Professor of Humanities, Faulkner University

Freedom and Natural Law in the United States of America

Allen Mendenhall, Executive Director, Blackstone & Burke Center for Law & Liberty

Free Markets and their Requisite Moral Ontology

Scott Smith, Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics, Biola University

Recreating and Integrating the Economics Major with the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Belmont Abbey College

Michael Watson, Assistant Professor, Belmont Abbey College

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