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Back to Bauer — A Report from the LSE Conference on Freedom and Development
By Pete Boettke
It was a great opportunity to be part of the LSE conference on Freedom and Development in Honor of P.T. Bauer. The conversation reflected high quality academic discourse and presentations…
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Does Google Scholar Capture Influence? And other perplexing questions
By Pete Boettke
As reported, Pete Leeson and I are in London for a conference at the LSE. As we were walking around yesterday we got in a discussion about who were the…
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Two-Tiered Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
By Pete Boettke
To view the paper that Pete and I are presenting at the LSE conference on freedom and development, go here: http://www.peterleeson.com/Two-Tiered_Ent.pdf
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Off to London
By Pete Boettke
I am heading to the LSE for a conference on Freedom and Economic Development. Other presenters include Joseph Stiglitz, Andrei Shleifer, Daron Acemoglu, Anne Krueger, Robin Burgess and Tim Besley.…
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Responding to Claims of Market Failure
By Pete Boettke
There are several ways to respond to claims of market failure: definitional, institutional, entrepreneurial, and comparative analysis. Economists can show that terms such as externality, public goods, monopoly, and macro-instability…
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Sweatshop-Intensive Countries and International Labor Standards
By Pete Boettke
A few days ago I posted on my forthcoming paper with Josh Hall on international labor standards and economic development in the Journal of Labor Research. Our analysis of countries…
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Dusting Off the Old Books
By Pete Boettke
The Economist in its 'Economic Focus' column argues that there are at least two arguments for dusting off the old Austrian books when it comes to understanding the fragility of…
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In Case You Missed It — 3 Cheers for Price Gouging
By Pete Boettke
John Stossel 20/20 was great again last night, and he relied for his story on price gouging on my colleagues Russ Roberts and Vernon Smith (as well as Gary Becker…
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International Labor Standards and Comparative Development
By Pete Boettke
The international labor rights movement, led by the International Labour Organization (ILO), is at the center of a heated debate over labor standards in the developing world. The ILO argues…
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Mike Munger — Libertarian
By Pete Boettke
Mike Munger is one of the most insightful political economist I know, and he also has a wonderful ability to communicate his ideas clearly and forcefully (as can be seen…