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By Pete Boettke
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Congratulations to Steve Horwitz — 2011 Hayek Prize Winner
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders formally announced today that Professor Steve Horwitz had been awarded the Hayek Prize. Very much deserved Steve. Keep up the…
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Strangers Nowhere in the World
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That phrase comes from Kant, but it is also the title of an excellent book that I am reading at the moment by Margaret Jacob (U of Penn…
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The Economics of Valentine’s Day
By Pete Boettke
Chris Coyne
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Pursuing Perfection, Finding Excellence
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the message that Vince Lombardi told the Packer players who previously went 1-10 as he took over the head coaching job in Green Bay. Lombardi's coaching…
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Archival Evidence for Higgs on WW II and the Great Depression
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Our friend Bob Higgs has done amazing work on the history of the Great Depression. I'm sure most of our readers are familiar with his paper on "Regime…
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Learn Liberty Videos from IHS
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Our friends at the Institute for Humane Studies have launched a new online education site called "Learn Liberty.org". The site features longer videos of lectures from IHS seminars…
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The Bourgeois Revaluation: How Innovation Became Virtuous, 1600-1848
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the title of Deirdre McCloskey's next work in her multi-volume set. I am at present participating in a manuscript conference discussing an early draft of the…
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Deirdre McCloskey on Bourgeois Dignity
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The Economic Society at GMU and the Mercatus Center sponsored a talk by Deirdre McCloskey on her new book, Bourgeois Dignity on Wed. Feb. 9th, 2011. Enjoy the…
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Top 20 Articles in the AER
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| A committee of distinguished economists have selected the top 20 articles published in the AER over the last 100 years. Hayek's "Use of Knowledge" is listed, as is…
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More Teaching: A Class Exercise on Price Elasticity
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Since we're talking about teaching, and I think we should talk about it more, here's a little class exercise on price elasticity that I've used for a few…