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Behavioral Public Choice and Institutional Political Economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| F. A. Hayek devoted a chapter in The Road to Serfdom as to why the worst get on top in political regimes that grant almost unlimited discretionary power…
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My Undergraduate Austrian Economics Syllabus
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz You can find the syllabus for my undergraduate Austrian course here. I haven't taught it since the spring of 1999, which is really way too long. Teaching an…
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The Poor are Not Getting Poorer
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz That's the title of my op-ed in this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer. I fully expect to make a third appearance on a certain economist-blogger's "Stupidest Human Alive" list. And…
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Mainline versus Mainstream Economics, and The Questions of Moral Philosophy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In his very readable On Ethics and Economics, Amartya Sen argues that modern economics has existed in the corner solution of economics as engineering as opposed to economics…
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A 420 Character Letter to the President
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Dear President Obama, The global economy is not one of your pick-up basketball games where we try to"win the future." It is a vast ecosystem of economic exchange…
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Murphy Responds to Krugman on the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Bob Murphy responds, stressing again the vital importance of an Austrian understanding of capital theory and providing some basic data that is consistent with the Austrian theory of…
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My Exchange with Gauti Eggertsson at EJW Continues
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Back in September of 2009, I published a piece in Econ Journal Watch criticizing a 2008 AER article of Gauti Eggertsson's that addressed the role that the Roosevelt…
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Greg Mankiw on the Structure of Graduate Education in Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Two facts --- students are taking longer to get their PhDs in economics, and students are dropping out of PhD programs before finishing. Faced with these facts, Greg…
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Creative Destruction – Two Tales in Four Pictures
By Pete Boettke
Chris Coyne Two cases of creative destruction with very different outcomes: Case 1: Shanghai 1990 vs. 2010 (HT Roger Pielke Jr.): Case 2: Tarok Kolache, an Afghan village in Kandahar’s…
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Calling All ECONOMISTS, Let’s Answer a Serious Question
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| We spend too much time on this blog in my opinion discussing terminology, providing defenses against uncharitable readings, and worrying about who is and who isn't following in…