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Peter Bauer Tribute
By Pete Boettke
On May 6-8, 2004, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University held a conference in honor of Peter Bauer. Several of Bauer's colleagues and friends…
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Manipulating the Media
By Pete Boettke
Economic analyses of the media have abounded lately. Many of these papers consider the role of mass media in economic development. A few years ago, Chris (Coyne) and I published…
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It’s Getting Better All the Time
By Pete Boettke
Among the first posts on this list was one on "The Hour Glass Shape of Modern Economics", and the point of that was to illustrate the narrowing of econoimcs in…
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The Challenge Ahead for the MCC
By Pete Boettke
A few weeks ago, in an entry on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), I mentioned that the only reason why the MCC will ever succeed at changing the face of…
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The Mystery of the Mundane
By Pete Boettke
I've been teaching principles of economics to students since 1985 and using The Economic Way of Thinking by Paul Heyne the entire time. I am now an author on that…
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Dogmatists, Ideologues, and Pragmatists
By Pete Boettke
In a recent blog on the nomination of Ben Bernanke as the Fed Chairman, Tyler Cowen explains that to be at the head of the Fed, the chairman “should have…
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Bernanke, the Fed and the Monetary Theory of the Trade Cycle
By Pete Boettke
Ben Bernanke is a super-star among economists. As Tyler Cowen points out at Marginal Revolution Bernanke is credited with several major contributions to economics and monetary theory. He also is…
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Happiness and Economics II
By Pete Boettke
In an earlier post I mentioned that Pete Boettke and I are writing a paper focusing on Austrian/Public Choice insights on the expanding happiness and economics research. We have completed…
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More on MMP in New Zealand
By Pete Boettke
The Economist this week has an article on Helen Clark’s new government. It explains well the dance of New Zealand political parties since the election’s results. Clark has become Prime…
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FPP vs. MMP
By Pete Boettke
In a comment to my post (Does Social Change Depend on the Electoral System?), Ilya Somin (of George Mason University) pointed that while FPP has clear advantages, such as that…