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By Pete Boettke
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Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change
By Pete Boettke
Chris and I have a new paper that investigates the role of mass media as a mechanism of institutional change. Here's the abstract:A large literature establishes the connection between institutions…
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Bill Easterly on Bono and Africa
By Pete Boettke
Bill Easterly's latest piece, in today's Los Angeles Times, is motivated by the Africa issue of Vanity Fair. Easterly notes:...the international development establishment is rigging the game to make Africa…
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Review of Robertson
By Pete Boettke
You can read my review of David Robertson's, International Economics and Confusing Politics, here. The review will appear in Economic Affairs. Overall, I like the book; though, Robertson neglects the…
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The Austrian Economists v2.0
By Pete Boettke
We are experimenting with a new design and layout including a toolbar on the right with links to our books. Let us know if you have any suggestions.
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2007 AAU Summer Circuit
By Pete Boettke
I will be away coaching basketball for the next few weeks. My AAU team achieved their goal from the spring of qualifying for the Division 1 AAU National Championship in…
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RAE Symposium on Value and Exchange
By Pete Boettke
In his 1963 presidential address to the Southern Economic Association James Buchanan famously asked, "What Should Economists Do?" Buchanan challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that treated the economic problem of society…
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Congratulations to Bryan Caplan
By Pete Boettke
The New Yorker has a review of Bryan's book. THE NEW YORKER! Dorthy Parker, the Algonquin group, etc. You cannot talk about American 'think-magazines' without mentioning The New Yorker. When…
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Ranking PhD programs by placement of their students
By Pete Boettke
Here is a paper that does that. Greg Mankiw likes the results in table 1. I wasn't surprised that NYU didn't do as well in this ranking as it does…
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The Bottom Billion
By Pete Boettke
That is the title of Paul Collier's new book. Nail Ferguson reviews the book in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Collier summarizes the argument in the book in…
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Articles of Interest
By Pete Boettke
1. Pete Boettke on Hans Sennholz. 2. Bill Easterly on development assistance as a mistake and the ideology of development. 3. The costs of health care regulation in the U.S.…