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By Pete Boettke
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Private Governance
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Are all of the rules and regulations governing economic activity a product of central planning or legislation? To what extent does privately produced and enforced governance play a…
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Prices — what do they do?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The imaginative and penetrating economic thinker Glen Weyl has posted a revised version of his forthcoming paper "Price Theory" to SSRN. This is a very important paper for…
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Robert Conquest (1917-2015)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The great historian Robert Conquest passed away on 3rd of August 2015 at the age of 98. Conquest exposed the brutal reality of the Soviet socialist experiment, and…
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Milton Friedman’s Student Notes From Viner’s Economic Theory Class
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Irwin Collier at Economics in the Rear-View Mirror continues to provide treasures from the archives. Recently he posted material from Milton Friedman's student days. It is fascinating to…
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New Mercatus Study on the Barriers to Upward Mobility
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz I have a new policy study just out today from the Mercatus Center titled “Breaking Down the Barriers: Three Ways State and Local Governments Can Improve the Lives…
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War is the Health of the State
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Robert Higgs gives the 2015 Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom lecture at Mises University.
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Sound Economic Reasoning Teaches …
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| When I learned economics from Hans Sennholz at Grove City College he often made two claims. First, he would tell us what sound economics -- or what he…
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Mill > Keynes, so says Steven Kates
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Steven Kates has an interesting essay at Liberty Matters addressing what was the conventional wisdom in "macroeconomics" at the time of John Stuart Mill, how that was transformed…
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Greece and Wrestling with the Fiscal Commons
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The Greece Referendum is finishing up as I write this. Millions are voting today on whether or not to accept the terms of the international bailout of their…
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Israel Kirzner’s Hayek Medal Lecture in Berlin — June 2015
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Israel Kirzner joins a distinguished list of recipients of the Hayek Medal that includes Gary Becker, Vernon Smith, Viktor Vanberg and Geoff Brennan. Obviously, a well deserved honor,…