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By Pete Boettke
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Nobel Prize speculations
By Pete Boettke
Tyler Cowen states he would give it for rent-seeking. I would be thrilled if they did, but every October I start hoping against hope that it will go for entrepreneurship…
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Thoughts into Theorems
By Pete Boettke
If coffee is god's way to turn thoughts into theorems in the word of mathematics, shouldn't we recognize that performance enhancement is a fact of life. I mean haven't you…
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Rush to Philosophic Judgment?
By Pete Boettke
In recent debates on this blog several commentators have made reference to the dead-end of the hermeneutic turn in the Austrian school from the 1980s. But truth is not determined…
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Another Reason Why Grove City College is the Best College in the World!
By Pete Boettke
I have been having an ongoing feud with Pete Leeson for many years as to whether GCC or Hillsdale is the best undergraduate college on the planet. Pete just returned…
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What is Wrong with The Austrian Economists Blog?
By Pete Boettke
OK, as of this morning we have 73 comments on post discussing the internal battle among Austrians over the label Austrian, and 2 comments over a post discussing a new…
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Cowen Reviews “The Shock Doctrine”
By Pete Boettke
Tyler Cowen reviews Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine in The New York Sun. The bottom line:The energy of the book is real and there is no doubt it will mobilize…
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Competition and Level Playing Fields
By Pete Boettke
I am participating in a conference this week sponsored by the Global Enterpreneurship Monitor, the GMU School of Public Policy, and Babson College. The conference is, as one would expect,…
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The Battle of Ideas Continues
By Pete Boettke
I entitled my 2006 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture "The Battle of Ideas: Economics and the Struggle for a Better World" for the simple reason that I believe much of the…
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Political Economy and Entrepreneurship
By Pete Boettke
Peter Klein points to this new work on The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship.I referenced this work earlier in relation to my experience at the RATIO Institute conference on entrepreneurship this…
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Economic Freedom of the World 2007
By Pete Boettke
Each year, James Gwartney and Robert Lawson do a fantastic job publishing the Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report. The 2007 vintage has just come out (see here). It…