Created in 1974 , the Olive W. Garvey Fellowships were offered biennially from 1982 until 2007. Since 2008 the contest has been sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and is now annual.

1974-1992 Garvey Fellowship Winners

Topic: “Markets in the Post-Cold War Era: Controlled or Free?”

First Prize: Steven Hayward, Claremont Graduate School
Second Prize: Amy L. Sherman, University of Virginia
Third Prize: Hardy Bouillon, University of Trier, Germany

Topic: “Prospects for Liberty in the Post-Socialist International Economy”

First Prize: Susan Marie Szasz, Syracuse University
Second Prize: Steven Hayward, Claremont Graduate School
Third Prize: Penelope J. Brook, CS First Boston, Wellington, New Zealand
Honorable Mention: Ira Katz, Duke University

Topic: “Toward an Open World Order”

First Prize: Peter Moser, Schweizerisches Institut fuer Aussenwirtachaft, Switzerland
Second Prize: Matthias Otte
Third Prize: Willis C. Jenson

Topic: “The Economics and Philosophy of Liberty”

First Prize: Mark D. LaRochelle, State University of New York, Stonybrook
Second Prize: David Tucker, Hardy University
Third Prize: Thomas Hazlett, University of California, Davis

Topic: “The Road to Serfdom, Forty Years Later”

First Prize: Hannes H. Gissuararson, Pembroke College, Oxford University, England
Second Prize: Thomas J. DiLorenzo, George Mason University
Third Prize: Gregory B. Christainsen, California State University, Hayward

Topic: ”The Virtues of the Free Economy”

First Prize: William Anderson, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Second Prize: James B. Beckwith, Jr., North Carolina Central University
Third Prize: Robert Miller

Topic: “The Moral Imperative of the American Private Enterprise System of Risks and Rewards”

Prizes (tied):
Alan C. Stockman, University of Rochester
David Kelley, Princeton University
Roger E. Michener, Princeton University
John H. Beck, Gonzaga University
Roy A. Childs, Jr., Center for Libertarian Studies
John B. Egger, Towson State University
Verna E. F. Harrison, Princeton University
Karl Keating, Princeton University
Walter J. Wessels, North Carolina State University