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By Pete Boettke
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Creativity and/or Alertness — the Value of Diversity in Science, Art, and Business
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I regularly listen to NPR's Hidden Brain podcast. A recent episode explores the value of diversity in background and in perspective for progress in science, for artistic expression,…
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Police Services, Local Public Economics, and The Theory of Fiscal Attention
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Two of my close colleagues and research partners -- Jayme Lemke and Liya Palagashvili -- have a great video out on the issue of community policing. We have…
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Some New Books To Add to Your List This Spring
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The series I edit with Timur Kuran at Cambridge -- Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice and Society -- will be adding two new books this spring -- Humanomics…
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Demsetz: Competition, Property Rights, Nirvana Economics, and Barriers to Entry
By Pete Boettke
~ Frederic Sautet ~ We are mourning the passing of one of the greatest economists of all times who influenced me a great deal: Harold Demsetz. I met Demsetz at…
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Harold Demsetz (1930-2019) — a champion of price theory and the Economic Way of Thinking
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Harold Demsetz speaking at GMU 2009 I received the sad news this morning that Harold Demsetz has passed away. A lot of folks who think in terms of…
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Logic and contingency in politics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| A few projects that I am involved with at the moment have brought me back to my original research and teaching interest in political economy -- comparative economic…
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Holcombe’s _Political Capitalism_
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| During the run up to his election as President in 2016, candidate Trump often bragged that he knew full well about the pay to play schemes in politics…
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Paul Romer’s Nobel Lecture
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The tension between the restraining force of scarce resources and the positive force of discovery and innovation. Economics must shift the balance, I'd argue, from allocation to exchange,…
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Come Work With Us at Ball State
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz We have two tenure-track openings at Ball State and we'd love to hire two people with fields in health econ and I-O/Law and Economics. You'll join a department…
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Wirth Institute 2018 Conference on the Austrian School of Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| For over a decade, the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies has been hosting a biannual conference exploring the history, philosophy, and relevance of the Austrian…