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By Pete Boettke
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Neuro-economics and the Law
By Pete Boettke
GMU is home to the Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics as well as the Law and Economics Center. In fact, some of the key individuals, such as Kevin McCabe,…
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Economic Growth in China
By Pete Boettke
Due to the miracle of the modern technology of video conferencing, I gave a lecture on constitutional political economy to a group of students from Michigan State University. During the…
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Best Paragraph of the Day (so far)
By Pete Boettke
Mihaly Csikszentmhialyi writes in his book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention that:Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made…
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Austrian Economics, Sociology and Community Planning
By Pete Boettke
Over at OrgTheory, Brayden discusses Brad de Long's review of James Scott's See Like a State. de Long actually published this review in Review of Austrian Economics. Brayden expresses "surprise"…
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Sex and Economics
By Pete Boettke
Tim Harford discusses new research on the strategic use of assets and the question of virginity.Many years ago I wrote a review essay on Richard Posner's Sex and Reason, while…
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Is There a Wisdom of Crowds?
By Pete Boettke
There is an interesting experiment being conducted by JC Bradbury (author of The Baseball Economist and one of the great examples of what the GMU PhD program can produce) that…
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Is Hayek Grossly Overrated?
By Pete Boettke
Bryan Caplan believes so.And Bryan pulls no punches in his response to Dan Klein's critique of The Myth of the Rational Voter.I am actually in this instance, as in so…
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Political Theology
By Pete Boettke
Mark Lilla, who I once served with on the core curriculum committee in the College of Arts & Sciences at NYU, discusses coping with political theology at CATO Unbound.
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Witty and Insightful — II
By Pete Boettke
Greg Mankiw describes the evolution of data-free empirics in economic policy discourse.
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Witty and Insightful
By Pete Boettke
Dani Rodrik on this past weekends New York Times Book Review.