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By Pete Boettke
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Are We Better off Today?
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz An issue that I've raised here several times in the last couple of years, namely how much better off the average American is now than in years past,…
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A Thought on Teaching
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz This terrific David Henderson post on his philosophy of teaching got me thinking about a question I've mulled over before and written about for last year's APEE conference.…
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Rawls’ “Implicit” Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| We will be discussing A Theory of Justice in my class on Monday night. Besides discussing the key concepts of justice as fairness, the critique of utilitarianism, the…
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A Tragic Loss — Douglas Bruce Rogers
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The GMU economics community awoke Monday morning to the tragic news that Doug Rogers -- one of our best and brightest -- had lost his life. Doug was…
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Empirical Research in Economics and Political Economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| My colleague Alex Tabarrok over at Marginal Revolution points to this new paper by Randall Morck and Bernard Yin Yeung, "Economics, History and Causation." Morck and Yeung argue…
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BBC 4 Episode of “Analysis” on Austrian Economics
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz While I was in London earlier this month, I was interviewed by the BBC for a program on Austrian Economics that aired today. You can find the audio…
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A Proposed Fix for a Balance Sheet Recession?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Vernon Smith proposes that in a world of imperfect policy choices, but within the reality that a choice will be made nevertheless, that rather than a scattershot fiscal…
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Anarchy, Order, and/or Chaos in Egypt?
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz I've only been following developments in Egypt lightly, but the most interesting stuff I've read this evening is about the way in which various "neighborhood watch" groups have…
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What do the uprisings of Egypt tell us about our theory of political revolution?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The recent events throughout Egypt are problematic for the US government as it exposes the hypocrisy of the rhetoric of being a shining light for democracy and free…
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Study the History of Political Economy Young Aspiring Economists
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Jacob Viner as early as 1950 presented "A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training" at the Brown University Graduate Convocation. Rather than training technicians,…