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By Pete Boettke
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Economists Used to Believe This
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I have argued that history of economics can be usefully divided into (a) history of economic thought as intellectual history, and (b) history of economic thought as contemporary…
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Unemployment Rate Drop Discussion
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz The unemployment rate falls 0.4 to 9.4%. 1. The deeper data suggest this might be a continuation of falling labor force participation rates and discouraged workers. This is…
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Carry Water on Both Shoulders
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is what Murray Rothbard criticized Israel Kirzner of doing in his review for the Volker Fund of the book, Market Theory and the Price System (1963). Rothbard…
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The Genius of Mises, and the Brilliance of Kirzner
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the title of a new working paper that focuses on Mises's identification of the market process as the analytical focus of economic theory, and Kirzner's further…
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Bob Higgs on the Dangers of Samuelson’s Method
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The Winter 2011 volume of The Independent Review has been published and it contains a wonderful piece by Bob Higgs that should be required reading. My favorite passages…
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Atlas Sound Money Contest
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Our friends at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation are once again sponsoring an essay contest on the theme of "Sound Money." To be eligible, you must be 35…
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Horwitz in Europe
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz For any of our readers in the UK or central Europe who might be interested, I will be in London and Bratislava next week, and several of the…
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The Fiscal State We’re In
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Gary Becker provides some straight talk on the fiscal situation in state and local government.
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The Shifting of Power in DC
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Today will be a shifting in power in DC as those who won election back in November assume their new positions and the balance of power in the…
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The Keynesian Avalanche: A Sociology of Knowledge/History of Economics Perspective
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The claim that Keynesian economics has made a comeback since 2008 in the public imagination has become commonplace. I have claimed repeatedly that the reports of the death…