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By Pete Boettke
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Kirzner on You Tube on Choice, Entrepreneurship and Market Processes
By Pete Boettke
Kirzner on You Tube on Choice, Entrepreneurship and Market Processes Israel Kirzner on You Tube.Hat tip to Jeff Tucker. Posted by Peter Boettke on October 23, 2007 at 08:28 AM…
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Thinking Seriously About Progress in Science
By Pete Boettke
Recent experience has once again made me think about how progress is made individually as a scientist and as an intellectual movement. And what causes intellectual stagnation and frustration with…
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Is the Econ-Blogosphere Prone to Systemic ‘Failure’?
By Pete Boettke
Dani Rodrik asks whether as economists who have high opportunity costs start cutting back on blogging will that produce a "lemons" result in the econ-blogosphere.I have actually made a similar…
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Laissez Faire Books is Closing Its Doors
By Pete Boettke
I just learned from Liberty and Power that Laissez Faire Books is shutting down after 30+ years of business. The news surprised me. LFB has been a constant and reliable…
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The Future of Development Aid and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
By Pete Boettke
William Easterly, Ambassador Danilovich (CEO of the MCC), and I talked about the future of development aid on Capitol Hill last week on Thursday 11th (see here). Pete Boettke gave…
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Entrepreneurship and Enterprise in the UK
By Pete Boettke
The European School of Managment produced this report.Download Enterprising_Britain_-_Interim_Report.pdf Anthony Evans is doing a great job at ESCP-EAP.
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Geneology of the Austrian School
By Pete Boettke
One of the readers suggested that Austrians should do a "geneology" similar to the way mathematicians. I remember sitting in Don Lavoie's office as a first-year graduate student and noticing…
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Lavoie on Hurwicz
By Pete Boettke
In National Economic Planning: What is Left? Don Lavoie discusses Hurwicz's attempt to address the Mises-Hayek challenge. Lavoie argued that while the "mechanism design theorists" (what he calls planometrics) have…
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Explaining Mechanism Design
By Pete Boettke
Alex Tabarrok does an excellent job explaining mechanism design theory at Reason.I encourage readers to look closely at Alex's discussion, Bob Subrick's discussion at 'The Stationary Bandit'Surely mechanism design theory…
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Boettke in The Wall Street Journal
By Pete Boettke
Pete Boettke has a piece in today's The Wall Street Journal discussing the connection between the work of Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson and that of Mises and Hayek.Mechanism design theory…