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Coordination Problem
By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
The Broken Window Fallacy is Alive and Well
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz In a PBS blog post on Friday, I pointed to some remarks of Larry Summers where he seemed to fall for the broken window fallacy. If that weren't…
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Does the Past Have a Useful Economics? Natural Disaster Edition
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| We are all still watching the events unfolding in Japan. What does past efforts to deal with natural disasters tell us about how economies recover and societies bounce…
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More Things Are Getting Better (or There’s No Great Stagnation): Phone Service
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Having just purchased a new cellphone for one child and about to get a new one for me and the other child, I was curious about what the…
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How Not to Make Friends at a Party Tonight
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Point out to the assembled that the optimal number of building collapses in an earthquake, especially one of magnitude 8.9, is probably not zero. (This is why I…
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Why Opposing Financial “Reform” is Pro-Consumer, Yet Again
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz CNN reports today that JP Morgan Chase is considering capping debit card transactions at $100 or even $50. Why? Because they can no longer collect the high level…
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Dan Smith Joins Faculty of Troy University
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| One of the great benefits of teaching at GMU is the opportunity to work with our graduate students. These students self-select from throughout the world to come to…
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Hot Pokers and Ashtrays
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| There is a famous story in philosophy where during a seminar at Cambridge, Wittgenstein grabbed the poker from the fire place and raised it in a threatening fashion…
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Mark Pennington’s Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I started to use the term "robust political economy" to describe my synthesis of the Austrian school analysis of market process analysis and the knowledge/calculation problem, and the…
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Worst Sentence I Read Today
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz So my reading group students requested to read this semester a book we could learn from by criticizing it. I suggested Richard Posner's The Failure of Capitalism. I…
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Thoughts on the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy
By Pete Boettke
Chris Coyne Yesterday evening I participated in a panel at GMU on "Political and Economic Change in the Middle East." Each panelist had a few minutes for comments followed by…