|Peter Boettke| I recently did this podcast with the Austrian Economics Institut in Vienna. I would like to draw attention to my discussion of the pivotal role that a 5 tool player (in this instance I highlight Ben Powell, see

|Peter Boettke| This week the Institut Ostrom Catalunya hosted an online conference to honor Lin Ostrom and the Bloomington School, in which I participated in a dialogue with Deirdre McCloskey. I greatly enjoy these opportunities to discuss ideas and explore

|Peter Boettke| As US military planes left the airport in Afghanistan, the longest war in US history came to an end. Now begins the hard recognition of the true costs of the last 20 years. Sadness of this episode in

|Peter Boettke| This description of the power of economics by Buchanan has always struck me as insightful. Economics is a tool for the curious. Properly understood, economics is not a tool for the power seeking and those who want to

|Peter Boettke| My dear friend, co-author, partner in so many educational and scholarly efforts since the mid 1980s passed away early Sunday morning (June 27, 2021) after a long and courageous battle with an aggressive form of cancer that to

|Peter Boettke| Virgil Storr is one of the most perceptive and intellectually challenging social scientists I know. He also writes with grace and eloquence, but leave that aside at the moment. He has pushed an argument for many years now

|Peter Boettke| I am a sucker for sports films, well basically anything sports. This is one of my favorite scenes from The Natural. Last week — Thursday May 20th 2021 — I was inducted into my HS Hall of Fame.