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By Pete Boettke
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The LSE Factor and the Development of Economics
By Pete Boettke
The LSE is a very exciting intellectual environment. First, it is in London which is one of the great cities and the campus is integrated into the city structure. Second,…
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Is Anthony Evans the Heir Apparent to J. B. Say?
By Pete Boettke
Anthony Evans is one of the most creative young economists to walk through the doors of GMU's PhD program. His work develops a thorough going subjectivism and methodological individualist perspective…
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Phelps on Dynamic Capitalism
By Pete Boettke
Ned Phelps has a very insightful paper in the Wall Street Journal today on "Dynamic Capitalism." This article is a must read. In particular for readers of this blog, Phelps…
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Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange
By Pete Boettke
My latest paper, forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Studies: This paper models social distance as endogenous to the choices of individuals. I show that where government is absent, large…
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Nobel for Edmund Phelps
By Pete Boettke
The 2006 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Edmund Phelps of Columbia University. Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution has a very nice discussion of Phelps's contributions to the…
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Doing Business, the ’07 Vintage
By Pete Boettke
Simeon Djankov and his team are back. The 2007 edition of the Doing Business database came out recently. I am a big fan of this line of work (see here),…
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Sophia Loren Meets Ludwig von Mises
By Pete Boettke
I just returned from my first trip to Italy. It was a very short trip and I didn't get to see much of the county. I was there for a…
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Scarcity and Institutions in the Metaverse
By Pete Boettke
In the best virtual reality movies, the audience often doesn’t know whether the action is taking place in the real world or in the imagination of the characters (who are…
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What are the Best Universities World Wide?
By Pete Boettke
The Times of London ran an article on Wed., October 5th reporting on the latest ranking of universities world-wide. Top 10 were:1. Harvard2. Cambridge3. Oxford4. MIT (tied)4. Yale (tied)6. Stanford7.…
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Will the ‘War on Terrorism’ Be the New Cold War?
By Pete Boettke
NO. At least that is the answer that Professor Barry Buzan gave in this public lecture on Wednesday evening. His talk was part of a public lecture series sponsored by…