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By Pete Boettke
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In The Economist this Week: Katrina, FEMA, and Corruption
By Pete Boettke
If you think that corruption only belongs to the developing world, well think twice. One of the first big results found by the team put together by Peter Boettke to…
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Contagious Capitalism
By Pete Boettke
My latest with Russ Sobel: Is capitalism contagious? Since WWI, global foreign policy has treated economic freedom/repression like a virus that spreads between countries. Most recently, the domino theory of…
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Brain Science and the Moral Order
By Pete Boettke
Richard Rorty reviewed Macr Hauser's Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong in the Sunday August 27th Book Review section of the New York Times.…
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Stipendiary Ideologue?
By Pete Boettke
Well, that is what Chris Trotter recently called me in the New Zealand newspaper, The Independent (see Download Comments.pdf for Chris Trotter's comments on my Sir Ronald Trotter lecture). Mr.…
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Book Series with University of Michigan Press
By Pete Boettke
It is now official as I have received the signed contracts, though it is still not reflected on the press website yet, that I have become the editor of the…
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The Benefits of Fantasy Football
By Pete Boettke
The NFL season is right around the corner (starts Sept 7th) which means fantasy football is even closer. Drafts will be taking place over the next few weeks if they…
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Preferences are Subjective
By Pete Boettke
"Freegan" - a polite name for someone who gains utility from obtaining and consuming trash from dumpsters. (article via Marginal Revolution) Perhaps the most famous freegan (remember the partially eaten…
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Inefficient “Big” Oil
By Pete Boettke
While Exxon Mobil's market cap is $412 b, making it the world's most valuable listed company, it ranks fourteenth in terms of proven resources. The thirteen firms that trump Exxon…
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Rothbard as a Teacher
By Pete Boettke
Here is a nice piece by Doug French, a former student of Murray Rothbard. Recounting his first class with Rothbard, French writes:I knew that this was economics the way it…
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They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To
By Pete Boettke
Check out this 1948 cartoon on the benefits of capitalism versus communism. Watch the whole thing - it's only nine minutes. Thanks to Tony Carilli for the pointer.