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By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
Mark Perlman (1923-2006)
By Pete Boettke
It is with great saddness that I report that Mark Perlman, the founding editor of The Journal of Economic Literature and one of the great personalities in the history of…
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Local Loop Unbundling in New Zealand
By Pete Boettke
The New Zealand Government has recently announced that it has a plan to further regulate telecommunications, especially to un-bundle the “local loop” and to further regulate DSL. Whether New Zealand…
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A Reading List for Wannabe Economic Historians
By Pete Boettke
As mentioned last week (see here), Sudha Shenoy believes that most economists do not know much about economic history. When one realizes that economists are not even trained in the…
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Mises as Mentor
By Pete Boettke
Economic paradigms advance on the basis of 3 things --- ideas, funding, and positions. Ideas are clearly the most important --- without ideas you cannot get very far. But lesser…
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Organizations and Markets
By Pete Boettke
Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss have started a new blog devoted to research and policy discussions related to organizations and markets. Both Klein and Foss are leading representatives of the…
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Would you rather be known as politically influential, famous among the intellectual elite, or making a lasting scientific contribution?
By Pete Boettke
This is a variant of the question James Buchanan would often ask a graduate student. The "correct" answer was of course to make a lasting scientific contribution --- to be…
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Against the Washington Consensus?
By Pete Boettke
I have always found myself in a strange position in the development policy debates. I am uneasy with government led development efforts, and yet the Washington consensus reflected an admission…
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The Revolution that Never Was
By Pete Boettke
A few weeks ago, Prof. Sudha Shenoy visited the department of economics at GMU. A native of India, Sudha lives in Australia and has recently retired from teaching economic history…
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Jane Jacobs — RIP
By Pete Boettke
Jane Jacobs passed away on Tuesday at the age of 89. Jacobs was one of the greatest independent scholars/intellectuals in the 20th century. I first heard of Jacobs and her…
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The Inevitability of the Unexpected
By Pete Boettke
Twenty six years ago today, on April 24, 1980, US President Jimmy Carter decided to launch a rescue mission using the Delta Force to bring back home the US hostages…