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Hayek and Hurwicz (once more)
By Pete Boettke
Co-Nobel Prize winner Roger Myerson sees the connection between Hayek and Hurwicz very clearly in this 2006 Lecture in Honor of Hurwicz.Download hurwicz.pdf In addition, it should be pointed out…
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Hayek and Hurwicz
By Pete Boettke
Leonid Hurwicz (along with Roger Myerson and Eric Maskin) have been named the 2007 Nobel Prize winners in economics for their foundational work in mechanism design theory.Mechanism design theory ----…
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Reflections on the Nobel Prize in Economic Science
By Pete Boettke
The Austrian Economists started posting in 2005 with the stated purpose of highlighting the insights of the Austrian school to bear on the conversation within the academic economics profession and…
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The conflict between our moral intuitions and the moral demands of the ‘Great Society’
By Pete Boettke
During the final sessions of the conference on the Austrian Founders the discussion hit on the tensions in the liberal project as identified by Wieser and later Hayek. Our evolutionary…
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Mises’s claims — brilliant not absurd
By Pete Boettke
Several commentators on this blog recently have stated that they believe the first 100 pages of Human Action to be absurd. I don't find their statements persuasive. I believe Mises's…
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Austrian Founders
By Pete Boettke
I am off to what promises to be a great conference on the Founders of the Austrian School today. Richard Ebeling will be there, as will one of the leading…
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REASON (November 2007)
By Pete Boettke
In the new print edition of REASON magazine on p. 10-11, you can find a discussion of Chris Coyne's forthcoming Public Choice paper on "The Politics of Bureaucracy and the…
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Peter Leeson Wins Garvey Award
By Pete Boettke
Co-blogger, Pete Leeson, has won the first prize in The Independent Institute's annual Garvey Contest. The award includes a $10,000 prize. The topic of this year's contest was, "Is foreign…
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Whitman on Health Insurance
By Pete Boettke
Glen Whitman, a former student from my NYU years, has a nice article in Business Week on Health Insurance and why government mandated programs just drive up costs. Glen's work…
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Causal Realism and Economic Theory
By Pete Boettke
Joe Salerno discusses the causal realist tradition in economics. He and Peter Klein are working on a book working along these lines. I look forward to reading it. There is…