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Its Been a Pretty Good Year at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| A year ago this upcoming August, we moved into our new dedicated space in Mason Hall on the George Mason University campus in Fairfax. The space enabled us…
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12 Articles Every Aspiring Economist Should Read
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz Over at FEE, my new column is a list of 12 articles I think all aspiring economists should read. Here's the intro: First, my imagined audience is an…
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Hayek’s “The Use of Knowledge in Society” – A Summary
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz I have been thinking a lot about the misunderstandings of Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society" essay. Below I offer what I think is a quick summary…
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An Illustration of the Dynamics of Interventionism: The Three Stooges “A Plumbing We Will Go”
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It’s Called ECONOMICS, not “Libertarian Economics” or “Free Market Economics”, but ECONOMICS Persistently and Consistently Pursued
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Labels are useful shorthands, but labels can also confuse and distort. Labels are tricky. Consider discussions of economists and their various views about the way the world works.…
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Camille Paglia in Conversation with Tyler Cowen
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Back in the 1990s when I was teaching at NYU I taught a seminar to undergraduates on Race, Gender and Income Inequality. It was a great experience for…
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The Tasks of the Political Economists — A Reminder to My Peers in this Profession
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| James Buchanan stressed that: Political economists stress the technical economic principles that one must understand in order to assess alternative arrangements for promoting peaceful cooperation and productive specialization…
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Communicating Economic Ideas in the Contemporary Culture
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The University of Chicago has a long tradition of innovative thinking in economics and communicating those ideas to peer professionals and to the general public. Chicago's Booth School…
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Thinking Through the Economic Way of Thinking: Teaching and Training Future Teachers
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| At the recent Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE), I participated on a panel discussing how one assesses teaching effectiveness in the basic economics class. Though I was…
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“When A Man Like Walter Williams Calls You To Duty, You Report” — Fred Boettke
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| My father was not very political, he did though hold strong principles. After he had heart surgery, he followed a very strict exercise regiment and he would sometimes…