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Reclaiming America
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I have recently written about the wonderful work of Richard Corneulle on the "independent sector" and Cornuelle's efforts to 'starve the state of responsibility'. But as Jerry O'Driscoll…
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Coordination Theorist Robert Clower (1926-2011)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| On May 1st I wrote about Axel Leijonhufvud, and then on May 3rd I learned of the passing of Robert Clower. The Clower/Leijonhufvud team rejected hydraulic Keynesianism and…
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Some Important Development Links
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Bill Easterly responds to Frank Fukuyama's NYT book review of The Constitution of Liberty. Chris Blattman discusses sweatshops in Africa and the relevant alternatives that decision makers face.…
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In The Marketplace of Ideas Being Wrong Should Hurt
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In our comments, a poster using multiple pseudonyms was called out by another commentator. The response was "I use a pseudonym because I don't want my employer to…
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Come on Frank, You Can Do Better Than This
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In the 13 years I have been at GMU, Frank Fukuyama was one of the most interesting colleagues I have had outside of economics. We served on many…
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Another Challenge to CP Readers — What Did You Learn?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Here is a blog post on what a graduate student in economics learned during his first year of PhD studies (macro). He has a follow up on what…
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Can You Fill This Out?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| HT: Shruti Rajagopalan
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Hayek on Deflation
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Given ongoing debates, I thought this passage from Hayek's "The Campaign Against Keynesian Inflation" (pp. 210-1 in New Studies, written in the mid-70s, my emphasis) might be of…
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A Decade of Debt
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the title of a new working paper by Reinhart and Rogoff. Shouldn't the issues they raise be an obsession among all economists who work in the…
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What Was the Argument in The Road to Serfdom?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The discussion about Hayek, Keynes and Planning raises the question of the interpretation of The Road to Serfdom. But this has been a subject of professional debate for…