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By Pete Boettke
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The Wisdom of Our Fathers
By Pete Boettke
When I was a teenager my Dad used to say to me about a teammate he wasn't that impressed with, or an opponent he didn't think I should fear the…
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2007 Economic Freedom Report
By Pete Boettke
The 2007 report has been published. This year's report includes an essay by Russ Sobel and Pete Leeson on the spread of economic freedom. Congratulations again to Bob Lawson for…
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Fiscal Sociology and Political Economy
By Pete Boettke
Political economy is now back en vogue. Acemoglu and Robinson, Persson and Tabellini, Besley and Burgess, and Shleifer and Vishny are just some of the names that have re-established the…
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Selgin on the Mortgage Crisis
By Pete Boettke
George Selgin offers his perspective on the cause of the mortgage crisis:One culprit, though, has not only avoided blame but has come across as the episode's hero. And that culprit…
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Capitalism and the Failure in Iraq
By Pete Boettke
The standard accounts of the failure in Iraq typically highlight inadequate resources and poor planning on the part of the Bush administration. Joshua Holland offers an alternative hypothesis:Iraqis have been…
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Capitalism and Democracy
By Pete Boettke
Here is my final post as guest blogger at Free Exchange: I BEGAN the week discussing the link between capitalism and democracy. In my initial post, I emphasized the importance…
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Learning from Katrina
By Pete Boettke
On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in the Gulf Coast, received wisdom and today’s media coverage dictates that the Gulf Coast has barely begun to recover. This is…
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Knowledge Spillovers from Enterpreneurship
By Pete Boettke
One of the really great benefits of academic life is the opportunity to travel and to meet new people that come at similar questions to the ones that you are…
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Guest Blogging at Free Exchange
By Pete Boettke
I will be guest blogging at The Economist's Free Exchange blog this week. My first post, on the compatability of capitalism and democracy, is available here.
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Weathering Corruption
By Pete Boettke
Russ Sobel and I have a new paper forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Economics entitled, "Weathering Corruption." I blogged on a working paper version of this some time…