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By Pete Boettke
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Chris Coyne is an Economics Rockstar — there is no question about it!!!
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| "neglecting basic principles ... can lead to devastating consequences." Listen to Chris Coyne talk about the opportunity cost of war, exporting democracy, and the nirvana fallacy.
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Richard Ebeling’s Austrian School Family Tree
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| As mentioned yesterday Richard Ebeling has a new video series and eBook on the Austrian School of Economics. At the end of his introduction he produces a family…
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Richard Ebeling and FFF’s Austrian Economics Project
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Richard Ebeling, one of the most articulate spokesman for the Austrian school of economics -- its history and its teachings, has in cooperation with the Future of Freedom…
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Economic Analysis, Philosophical Speculation, and Tacit Presuppositions
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I recently stumbled upon a very clear presentation on the damaging impact of inequality by Alan Krueger from 2013 entitled "Fair and Efficient Rules for Capitalism." Watching this…
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The End of Capitalism, Supreme Court Economic Review, 23 (1) 2015
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This is a special issue edited by Richard Epstein and Mario Rizzo. The table of contents: Volume 23, Number 1 | 2015 The Ends of Capitalism: An IntroductionRichard…
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Teaching the Lessons of the Great Recession
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| My brilliant colleague Tyler Cowen has a short video discussing the Great Recession of 2008 that provides an excellent introduction to some of the key issues related to…
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Symposium on the Post WWII Development of Austrian Economics RHET&M, Vol. 34a (2016)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The latest issue of Research in the History of Economic Thought & Methodology has just been published and it contains a symposium on the Post WWII Development of…
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The Bloomington School of Political Economy: A Conversation with Jayme Lemke
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Make sure to watch all the segments of the interview.
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Professional Politicians, Crony Capitalists, and Corruption in American History
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| It is important to distinguish between venal corruption (which can actually be welfare enhancing under certain circumstances -- see, e.g., this paper by Enrico Colombatto) and systemic corruption…
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Potentially Interesting Thought Exercise — David Stockman edition
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| David Stockman is in some fundamental sense a modern day Cassandra. The man who taught me economics -- Hans Sennholz -- was as well. Cassandra's get spat in…