Nominations for the 2012 Friedman Prize are now closed.
Please check back here on May 4th to find out who won.
2010 Akbar Ganji, Iranian writer and journalist
2008 Yon Goicoechea, leader of the
pro-democracy student-led
movement in Venezuela
2006 Mart Laar,
former prime minister of Estonia
2004 Hernando de Soto,
Peruvian economist
2002 Peter Bauer,
the late British economist
2010 Akbar Ganji,
Iranian writer and journalist
2008 Yon Goicoechea,
leader of the pro-democracy
student-led movement in
Venezuela
2006 Mart Laar,
former prime minister of Estonia
2004 Hernando de Soto,
Peruvian economist
2002 Peter Bauer,
the late British economist