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By Pete Boettke
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Tigers, Dragons and the Spirit of Capitalism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Sitting in the Cafe Paris in Prague checking email, I receive a challenge from an old friend. He sends me John Cassidy's "Enter the Dragon: Why "State Capitalism"…
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Walter Williams Interview
By Pete Boettke
Chris Coyne Here is an excellent interview with my colleague, Walter Williams, from Reason.tv. Among other topics, Walter discusses his recent autobiography, Up From the Projects.
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Hayek and Tsunamis
By Pete Boettke
Chris Coyne Following up on Pete and Steve's earlier posts on the disaster in Japan, yesterday L. Gordon Crovitz had a piece at WSJ.com on natural disasters and information. Crovitz…
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How the Washing Machine Liberates and Educates
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Hans Rosling is quickly becoming one of my intellectual heroes (and a teacher worth emulating). Here, in a TED talk, he makes the case for the transformative power…
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Economists as Worldly Philosophers
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the title of a recent paper by Robert Shiller. HT: Dan Houser. Why is it that these type of arguments about the costs of hyper-specialization and…
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Reminder: IHS Seminar Deadline is Approaching
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Our friends at IHS want to remind our college-aged readers that the deadline for their fantastic summer seminars is quickly approaching. All of us at Coordination Problem have…
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Off to Prague for the Rest of March
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I leave for Prague tomorrow where I will participate in the Prague Conference on Political Economy and give the Cuhel Memorial Lecture. While in Prague I will participate…
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Stimulus Spending and Jigsaw Puzzles
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz In a series of newspaper columns last year, Don Boudreaux compared the economy to a giant jigsaw puzzle with billions of pieces that can fit together in numerous…
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Neither Gargantuan nor Lilliputian, but Quasimarkets are Nevertheless Just That — Quasi — Often Small, Deformed and Despised
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Peter Leeson, Chris Coyne and I have a new paper discussing the debate over Quasimarkets in the context of the discussion of the political economy of local public…
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A Virtual Seminar on Austrian Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Tomorrow I will try something I have never tried before, a virtual seminar on Austrian Economics. I hear that some believe this is the future of my industry.