• January 2010 - May 2010: Senior Research Fellow, Center for for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, Durham, NC.

• July 2009 - December 2009: Julian Simon Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, MT.

• UTM Dean's Special Merit for Excellence, 2008, 2007.

• 2006 Smith-FEE Prize for best article recently published in Austrian economics, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.

• University of Toronto at Mississauga Faculty Excellence Award, 2005.

• Emerald Management Reviews' Independent Review Board - Author of top environmental management paper and top fifty management article of 2002 (for "Industrial Ecology and the Rediscovery of Inter-Firm Recycling Linkages," Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 11, no. 5, 2002).

• Winner of the 2003 Young Scholar Award from the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders, Atlas Foundation.

• 1999 William S. Broadbent Fellow, Political Economy Research Centre (Awarded to the author of the best essay written by a PERC fellow in 1999).

• Winner in the 1997 Mitchell Prize Young Scholars Competition, "Policy Instruments for the Transition to Sustainable Development," Houston Advanced Research Centre.

• Winner in the 1997 Annual Essay Competition for Graduate Students of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.

• Sigma Xi, Member 1997 - 2002.

• Ranked #21 (The 100-mile Diet is Ruining the Planet) of 25 Ideas that are Changing the World, Toronto Life, December 2009
• #68 on list of 100 Canadians who distinguished themselves in 2008, or over a lifetime, in the defence of liberty (Western Standard)

• Thought worthy of having a cream pie thrown at my face

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