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By Pete Boettke
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2016 APEE Meetings
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The annual meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) will be taking place at the end of this week into next week. All the information for…
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Colander and Mankiw Clash Over the Principles of Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| David Colander in the current issue of the Eastern Economic Journal argues that the core principles of economics are often taught in an unsubtle, unsophisticated and ultimately unhelpful…
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Surprise, Surprise — Austrian Economics, Probability and the NCAA Tournament
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Something amazing happened yesterday -- it has never happened before in the recorded history of college basketball -- a team came back from 12 points down in only…
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Israel Kirzner on the History and Importance of the Austrian Theory of the Market Process
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Israel Kirzner recently was on the George Mason University campus and spoke twice -- (1) on his career as an Austrian economists, and (2) on the history and…
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MPS Essay Contest for the F. A. Hayek Fellowship
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Essay ContestTo Apply for a Friedrich A. Hayek Fellowship to MPS 2016 The Hayek Essay Contest is open to all individuals 36 years old or younger. Entrants should…
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Happy 90th Birthday to Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| March 2nd is Murray Rothbard's birthday. He would have been 90 today if his life wasn't cut tragically short. In the hope that some readers of CP might…
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The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Memorial Lecture — Barry Weingast (2015)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In February 2015, Barry Weingast gave the inaugural Ostrom Memorial Lecture.
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Call for Papers: 2016 SDAE meetings (Washington DC, November 19-21)
By Pete Boettke
The annual meeting of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics will be held during the Southern Economics Association meetings in Washington, DC at the JW Marriott Washington, November…
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Happy 86th Birthday to Professor Israel M. Kirzner
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Israel Kirzner was born February 13th 1930.* *Happy Birthday to Gordon Tullock as well, who was born on February 13th 1922.
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Misperceptions on Adam Smith (and F. A. Hayek)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Many folks inside and outside of academic life believe that Adam Smith "invisible hand" theorem required a strong-version of the rationality and/or self-interest postulate. Strong rationality assumption is…