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2015 Carl Menger Essay Contest Winners
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Carl Menger Essay Contest for undergraduate students. Professors Michael Thomas, Adam…
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Economics in the Rear-View Mirror
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| A new blog has been established which will be of great interest to those interested in the history of political economy by Irwin Collier of the John F.…
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Criticism and Contestation, Not Suspicion and Skepticism is What Makes Science Productive
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Webster's Dictionary defines science as follows: Definition of SCIENCE 1: the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding2a : a department of systematized knowledge…
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Cooperation over Coercion: The Importance of Unsupervised Childhood Play for Democracy and Liberalism
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz I have a new working paper at SSRN on the role of unsupervised childhood play in enabling children to learn the skills and attitudes central to democracy and…
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Empirical Research in Comparative Historical Political Economy — Ethnography and Oral History Edition
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| How We Came Back: Voices from Post-Katrina New Orleans is now published. Congratulations to Nona Martin Storr, Emily Chamlee Wright and Virgil Henry Storr for their hard work…
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Don Boudreaux on Hayek’s Essential Contributions to Our Understanding of How the World Works
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| One of the great joys of working at GMU is that I can go to work everyday with the full knowledge that my co-workers share with me a…
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MadMen and the Market Process
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| No, I am not going to play TV critic. But instead just point to a recent paper by Rachel and Chris Coyne dealing with the economics of advertising.…
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Entrepreneurial Solutions to Adverse Selection Problems
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| A new working paper is out by my colleagues at Mercatus -- "How the Internet, the Sharing Economy, and Reputational Feedback Mechanisms Solve the 'Lemons Problem.'" The lead…
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Methodological Suspicions Bleeding Into Ideological Suspicions
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| As anyone who has a pulse and is interested in the public/popular discourse about economics as a science knows, Paul Romer has caused quite a stir with his…
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In Memoriam: Dr. John Templeton (1940-2015)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics lost a good friend and committed supporter with the recent death of John M. (“Jack”)…