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Speaking of Keynes — Lets Talk About the One Person Who Made Keynes a Sensible Economist, Axel Leijonhufvud
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I have repeatedly argued that the economics of John Maynard Keynes was nonsense. That doesn't mean that Keynes didn't have good turns of phrases here and there. It…
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Keynes, Central Planning, and the Scholarly Standards of Hip-Hop Lyrics
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz The dust-up du jour, prompted by comments from everyone from David Frum to Barkley Rosser to the Poor Man's Krugman, is over whether Russ Roberts and John Papola…
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Evans and Horwitz on Bagus and Howden on Free Banking
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Anthony Evans and I have just uploaded to SSRN a response to Bagus and Howden's critique of free banking that appeared in a recent QJAE. We think we've…
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Rizzo’s Plea: More Scholars in Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Mario Rizzo posts on the need for the development of more scholars in the field of economics. This recent Cowles Foundation working paper by Robert Shiller might be…
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More Than Good Intentions and Poor Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Bill Easterly reviews both. The hot thing in development economics is to account for irrational behavior, and engaged in controlled experiments. The tragic policy problem to be solved…
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Crime, Punishment, Prison, and Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Dan D'Amico reviews The Illusion of Free Markets.
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New Spanish Volume of Interviews with Austrians
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Below the fold is an interview with me that appears in the brand new Spanish language volume LA ESCUELA AUSTRIACA DESDE ADENTRO (Vol. I) edited by Adrian Ravier.…
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The Passing of a True Prince of Modern Classical Liberalism: Richard Cornuelle (1927-2011)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Richard Cornuelle passed away in the early morning of Tuesday April 26, 2011. He was one of the true princes of the modern classical liberal movement. And I…
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Why Are The Big Questions In Development Being Avoided?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Lant Pritchett argues that no formal method will help us make progress on asking the important questions in development. Why do you think this is the case?
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How Much Transitional Justice Can Regime Change Afford?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Chris Coyne sent me this article from Foreign Policy on transitional justice in Egypt. Chris and I address the trade-offs associated with addressing past imperfects during transition periods…