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By Pete Boettke
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Academics as Public Intellectuals
By Pete Boettke
Several years ago there was a book by Russell Jacoby, The Last Intellectuals that argued that unlike in the past public intellectuals today actually cluster in universities. Richard Posner's Public…
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Hayek, Tiebout, and Globalization
By Pete Boettke
Hayek argued in the 1940s for Interstate Federalism in order to preserve liberal economic policies. Tiebout's argument was that federalism simulated in politics what market competition achieved in the economy.…
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Rethinking the Rebuilding of New Orleans
By Pete Boettke
My colleague Tyler Cowen will have a series of columns this week published at Slate.com on the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina. Tyler makes the interesting argument that much…
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Why Can’t Social Change Happen in Western Europe?
By Pete Boettke
Following on Pete’s post on Saturday, I’d like to expand a bit more on the issue of reforms in Europe. I just want to make four points. 1. Insiders. Europe…
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Why is Europe Stagnating?
By Pete Boettke
I must confess --- I enjoy listening to NPR. On Weekend Edition (Saturday April 15th), long-time commentator Daniel Schorr made a great observation about Europe. When asked about the protests…
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Economics, Political Economy and Interdisciplinary Research
By Pete Boettke
One of the most distinctive characteristics of the Austrian School of Economics from its founding with Carl Menger in the 1870s has been that it has never seen economics in…
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Report on APEE — The Promise of the Youth Movement
By Pete Boettke
Last weekend I attended the annual meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) in Las Vegas. I have been attending APEE meetings for several years now and value…
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People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people
By Pete Boettke
I want to nominate those words from V for Vendetta as the best movie line since Anthony Hopkins said "Screw the government" in defiance of prohibition in Legends of the…
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Poverty in America
By Pete Boettke
While I was on the faculty at NYU I taught a course to freshman who had expressed an interest in pursuing graduate school in economics --- Honors Principles. The course…
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Liberalism in the Middle East?
By Pete Boettke
I will be spending the next two days at Grove City College participating in a conference titled, "Mr. Jefferson Goes to the Middle East." The interdisciplinary conference will focus on…