Tom DiLorenzo, Professor of Economics at Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business and Management, was awarded the prestigious Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education at the Prague Conference on Political Economy at the University of Economics in Prague in April.

The award is named in honor of Franz Cuhel, a 19th-century Czech economist who was instrumental in the early development of modern microeconomic theory.  

DiLorenzo also delivered the conference’s keynote address, The Cuhel Memorial Lecture, to more than 200 attendees from 11 countries. Following the conference, DiLorenzo lectured for a week at the University of Economics on a variety of economic issues and shared his research with undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.

DiLorenzo is the author of 11 books including: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War; Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know about Dishonest Abe; and How Capitalism Saved America for which he earned the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics’ Smith-FEE Award for Best Book (2003-2005). He has been a member of the Loyola faculty since 1992.

The Prague Conference on Political Economy is an annual international and interdisciplinary gathering of scholars and supporters of the Austrian School of Economics and political economy of freedom. Participants attend lectures and debates focusing on economics, history, philosophy and other humanities disciplines and discuss these issues with leading theorists in their fields from Europe and other countries throughout the world.

Past recipients of the Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education include Richard Ebeling, president of the Foundation for Economic Education in New York and Guido Hulsmann of the University of Angers in France, author of a biography of the famous free-market economist Ludwig von Mises.