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Somalia and the Absence of Central Government
By Pete Boettke
Yumi Kim from the Mises Blog has a very good post on Somalia and its absence of central government (see here). The author based her post on Michael van Notten’s…
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What’s in a Name?
By Pete Boettke
Pete Boettke blogs today on the upcoming debate between himself and Dan Klein about whether we should start calling Austrian economics by another name. (See below). Klein advocates renaming Austrian…
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What Separates Austrians from Others in the Science of Economics?
By Pete Boettke
Dan Klein and I will be debating the usefulness of the label 'Austrian' economics tomorrow in the Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. I will leave it to you to…
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The Integrity of College Teaching
By Pete Boettke
College teaching is actually a worthy professional calling. I don't mean being a professor who must balance undergraduate and graduate teaching with research demands. No, I mean teaching economics to…
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Is GDP the Best Measure?
By Pete Boettke
As a counter-weight to my post from yesterday on Europe, The Economist this week discusses alternative measures to GDP (see here). The problems with GDP measures are well-known, chief among…
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Europeans: You Don’t Get It, Do You?
By Pete Boettke
As a native of the old continent, I am always interested in its future (e.g. see my recent post). Claire Morgan, GPI director at Mercatus, attracted my attention yesterday to…
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Democracy and Development
By Pete Boettke
A recent NBER paper by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini (Democracy and Development: The Devil is in the Details) looks at how democracy promotes development. As one would expect, it…
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Wonders of the Wolani
By Pete Boettke
Last night I watched a documentary on the Wolani of western New Guinea. Although New Guinea has a government, the political economies of people like the Wolani are essentially stateless.…
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Lets Put the Free Back Into Free Markets
By Pete Boettke
In a recent interview in National Perspectives Quarterly (Spring 2006), the 93 year old Milton Friedman addresses the questions of economic freedom and globalization.NPQ | With globalization, are we seeing…
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Burn the Mathematics
By Pete Boettke
I am teaching history of economic thought this semester (a joint undergraduate/graduate course) and at the moment we are discussing the contributions of Marshall. Marshall has this great advise about…