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The Three Roles of the Market
By Pete Boettke
If you were to summarize in three points what the fundamental roles of the market are; what would you say? Austrians have a comparative advantage in this exercise, as they…
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Good Sex, Bad Economics?
By Pete Boettke
The mere mention of SEX should bring some blog hits this morning. In The Best of the New World of Economics, Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock begin their chapter on…
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The Remarkable Jacques Marseille
By Pete Boettke
Prof. Jacques Marseille, one of the few French intellectuals (he is an economic historian) sending the alarm about the current French situation, has an interesting article this week in the…
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Religion, Development and the Rise of the West: Follow Up on Earlier Post
By Pete Boettke
David Brooks in his review of Rodney Stark's book I mentioned earlier in today's NYT he writes that the truly innovative aspect of Stark's work is that capitalism developed in…
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Is the Idea of Liberty Western?
By Pete Boettke
As we witness the unfolding of events in Iraq, and the plight of underdevelopment in Africa, it makes sense to revisit Ludwig von Mises's claim that "The idea of liberty…
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Basketball and Economics
By Pete Boettke
Anyone familiar with me knows that I have a life-long involvement with the game of basketball. Along with one of my students, Michael Clark, I am trying to examine the…
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The Necessity of Econ 101
By Pete Boettke
That basic economics is a necessary, though not sufficient, input into public policy discussions should not be controversial to readers of The Austrian Economists. But despite the great progress that…
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Cultural Explanations: Where Do They Start?
By Pete Boettke
We have often discussed the issues of culture, belief systems, and institutions (see here and here for instance). One of my favorite papers by my colleague Peter Boettke is his…
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Flirting with Disaster
By Pete Boettke
A while back I blogged briefly on the political economy of government disaster relief. For those interested in this important topic, Russell Sobel and I have a new paper on…
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Constitutional Change and Institutional Stickiness
By Pete Boettke
James Buchanan has recently published an essay on the three constitutional amendments that he would currently advocate. His three include: (1) Fiscal responsibility; (2) Generality norm; and (3) Natural liberty.…