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By Pete Boettke
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The Influence of Culture on Science, and the Culture of Science
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| As a graduate student I met Arjo Klamer through my professor Don Lavoie. At the time Arjo had just published Conversations with Economists, and I had read the…
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Relevance in a world of sharp clevages
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In The Calculus of Consent, Buchanan and Tullock argue that their analysis of constitutional decision making has little relevance in a world with sharp clevages based on race,…
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James Buchanan Student Scholarships at MTSU
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This is not news, but it is worthy to note. Buchanan bequeathed $2.5 million to Middle Tennessee State University. They have created an Honors College there. In addition…
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The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Watch and listen very carefully to this wonderful talk by Elinor Ostrom from the Engelberg Center for Innovation Policy at the NYU School of Law in 2011.
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Liberty and Equality in Political Economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the title of the new book by Nicholas Capaldi and Gordon Lloyd. It is the latest addition to the book series -- New Thinking in Political…
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Kirzner’s Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The 6th volume of the projected 10 volumes of the Collected Works of Israel M. Kirzner has just be published by Liberty Fund. It is Kirzner's work Discovery,…
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Happy Birthday Professor Prychitko!
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I got excited about the ideas in the Austrian School of Economics through my undergraduate teacher Hans Sennholz. He changed my life by introducing me to the books…
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Lionel Robbins and Reading Comprehension Among Economists
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Earlier this year I spent some time at the LSE archives. Prior to that I have been reading as much as I could about the LSE in the…
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“You Cannot Envision Yourself as an Economist Proffering Advice As If to a Benevolent Despot” — James M. Buchanan
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| As an undergraduate my intellectual imagination was switched on by my economics professor Hans Sennholz. He did this in 3 ways. First, and foremost, by presenting basic economics…
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Pump Priming and the Global Economic Slowdown
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| OECD released its latest report on the global economic slowdown. As reported on NPR's Marketplace by Tracey Samuelson, the argument is that the world's economies are caught in…