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By Pete Boettke
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Doug North and the Wrong Crusade
By Pete Boettke
I recently participated in a book conference at Stanford on the latest book that Doug North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast are writing. The current title is A Conceptual Framework…
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Why Does Capitalism Have Such a Bad Name?
By Pete Boettke
I was tempted this morning to jump into the discussion on prematurity in science, but instead as I read the Washington Post I was struck by the storyline "Venezuela Poised…
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Can Scientific Ideas Come Prematurely?
By Pete Boettke
See Rafe Champion’s post on Prematurity in Scientific Discoveries by Ernest B Hook (Ed). Scientific explanations can be “premature,” i.e., arrive too early to be accepted or understood. Gunther Stent’s…
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Microfinance is a Band-Aid Solution to Poverty
By Pete Boettke
A while ago, Stephen Daley and I co-authored a Mercatus Policy Series based on Daley’s field work research on microfinance in the Philippines (see also here and here). While microfinance…
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Becker and Posner Cannot Avoid A Priori Reasoning
By Pete Boettke
For those who haven’t seen it, Gary Becker and Richard Posner had an article against raising the minimum wage in yesterday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal. What I find…
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Empire: Public Goods and Bads
By Pete Boettke
In the current issue of Econ Journal Watch, Steve Davies and I have the lead article, “Empire: Public Goods and Bads.” Here is the abstract: Theodore Roosevelt used the US…
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2 New Papers by Boettke, Coyne, and Leeson
By Pete Boettke
Pete, Chris, and I have two new papers of potential interest. Links and abstracts below: "Saving Government Failure Theory from Itself: Recasting Political Economy from an Austrian Perspective," forthcoming in…
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Austrian Theory of the Market Process II
By Pete Boettke
I will be teaching my graduate course in the Austrian Theory of the Market Process II again this spring. GMU is the only school at the PhD level in the…
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Trade Unions in Las Vegas
By Pete Boettke
Do you know why Nevada’s trade unions are powerful? See The Economist this week for a short analysis of an interesting case. Trade unions’ role and importance have diminished in…
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Hot Stuff from Mercatus
By Pete Boettke
The latest Mercatus Policy Comments. To know more about the impact of FEMA on US corruption, see here. Peter Leeson and Russ Sobel show how disaster relief programs increase corruption…