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The Hayek Society at the LSE
By Pete Boettke
I met with students from the Hayek Society at the LSE last night. The website is a little out of date, but the members last night told me that they…
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What is Going on at the LSE in October?
By Pete Boettke
So I am getting settled in my office (Rm. 515 of the Lionel Robbins Bldg if you are in London) and figuring out what I might want to do with…
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Blogging from the LSE
By Pete Boettke
I am back at the London School of Economics (LSE) as the Hayek Fellow for 2006. I will be here for the month of October, mainly doing research and some…
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The Ultimate Blog… from Space
By Pete Boettke
As you may know, Anousheh Ansari, who is behind the XPrize Foundation (which aims at helping develop private space travel and exploration), is currently orbiting around the earth in the…
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The Low Hanging Fruit of Public Policy
By Pete Boettke
Anyone who has heard me give a policy talk in the past three years will have heard reference to Richard Epstein's Free Markets Under Seige: Cartels, Politics and Social Welfare…
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A Visual Representation of the US Federal Budget
By Pete Boettke
If you don't already know it, you must look at this site (click on “view the graph”), which provides a complete graphic representation of US Federal Funding. All the agencies…
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Varied Reiterations… Lachmann vs. Nozick redux
By Pete Boettke
Commenting on developments in neuroeconomics, Greg Mankiw concludes that despite all the fuss economics is still fundamentally about large scale phenomena like inflation and unemployment that we economists have not…
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The Changing Nature of Economics
By Pete Boettke
The New Economist has a link to John Davis's recent paper on the changing nature of economic discourse. Thanks to Tyler Cowen for the pointer.Davis argues that "recent economics" is…
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Does Anyone Think Gas Prices Are Going to Dive?
By Pete Boettke
The Seattle Times reported yesterday that Philip Verleger, a noted energy consultant, said that gas prices are poised for a dramatic plunge. Here is the reasoning. Gas prices have soared…
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Empires with Expiration Dates
By Pete Boettke
Deepak Lal, one of the most insightful classical liberal writers over the past quarter century as evidenced by such books as Unintended Consequences and Reviving the Invisible Hand, also published…