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By Pete Boettke
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What does economic research tell us about terrorism?
By Pete Boettke
Alan Krueger reports on his research and in the process gives a nice nod to fellow GMU economist Larry Iannaccone for his work on the market for martyrs. Bottom line:…
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Policy on Comments
By Pete Boettke
At the urging on my colleague Steve Horwitz, we are going to turn comments on again. Did you ever see the movie The Tao of Steve? I found this quirky…
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After War – Cato Book Forum
By Pete Boettke
I will be at the Cato Institute on Monday, November 26th to talk about my new book, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy. The event starts at 11am…
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Culture and Development
By Pete Boettke
I recently reviewed Eric Jones' Cuture's Merging for the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change. Jones does an outstanding job of blending relative price adjustments with cultural attitudes to explain…
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Milton Friedman as the Michael Jordan of Economics
By Pete Boettke
The Dallas Fed has posted an interview with Milton Friedman from 2005 and also video clips from the 2003 conference at the Dallas Fed. There are clips from Ben Bernanke,…
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Hayek a Misesian, Boettke a Rothbardian
By Pete Boettke
I just attended an absolutely wonderful Liberty Fund conference organized by Bruce Caldwell on Hayek's critique of scientism. We read Counter Revolution of Science and "Individualism: True and False." The…
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Free Banking and Anti-imperialism
By Pete Boettke
I have some thoughts on the connection between the two over at Liberty and Power. I did not turn on comments, as comments over there would be most appreciated.
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No Superhero in the wings, but there are speculators
By Pete Boettke
The New York Times business section has an article in today's paper discussing last weeks stock market downward ride. I agree that there are major problems with the financial sector…
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Was Hayek a Kirznerian?
By Pete Boettke
This comment by Neel is an interesting one and worth noting: As for Hayek and Kirzner, well, I wonder whether the influence did not run both ways. Kirzner does refer…
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From the Economics of Speed Dating to Speed Seduction
By Pete Boettke
These guys should consult with Ed Stringham on the appropriate search model to employ in their studies! And who says that research on entrepreneurial discovery is stagnant and boring?