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By Pete Boettke
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The Paris School of Economics: Will it be Say or Walras?
By Pete Boettke
The world doesn’t know it yet, but a new place where economics is taught has just opened in Paris (see here). It is aiming at competing against the “hegemony” of…
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Why do actors think it is ok to be so publically political?
By Pete Boettke
I am watching the Oscar's on TV. Al Gore was featured for his "great" work on fighting global warming. And the Oscar's proudly announced that all of their planning was…
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Publish or Perish?
By Pete Boettke
As someone who has published a lot of articles from the time I was in graduate school I have a perverse fascination with the business of publishing in economic journals,…
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The Purity and Emotion of HS sports
By Pete Boettke
Robert Frank has been arguing for many years that relative competition can be as excited to the fan as absolute levels of competitive skill. When I first heard this argument…
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Congratulations to Bryan Caplan and Ed Stringham
By Pete Boettke
For winning the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Award, First Prize ($25k), for their paper “Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion, and Public Choice: What's Wrong With Democracy?” (see some comments from Bryan here).…
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When Global Cooling Was Upon Us…
By Pete Boettke
While I don’t think Austrian economics has much to say about climate change as such (although it may help us find policy responses), I’ve always wondered to what extent people…
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MUST READ!
By Pete Boettke
Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement (New York: Public Affairs, 2007). Doherty is able to tell a story that is both honest and…
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Changing Institutions and Changing Culture
By Pete Boettke
2006 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Ned Phelps continues to publish insightful essays for a wide audience on entrepreneurial dynamism and economic growth.
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Montenegro and the Birth of the First Mediterranean Tiger
By Pete Boettke
Maja Drakic, Kyle McKenzie and I have just published “Montenegro: The Challenges of a Newborn State” in the Mercatus Policy Series. This is the second Country Brief published by the…
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Currency Competition in Germany
By Pete Boettke
If you think the Euro has an absolute monopoly everywhere in the EU where it is legal tender, think twice. As an article in The Telegraph recently reported, parallel currencies…