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By Pete Boettke
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Is Growth Good for the Soul?
By Pete Boettke
Joseph Stiglitz reviews Benjamin Friedman's The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. Stiglitz summarizes the book as follows:There is a well-developed populist antigrowth literature concerned with, among other things, the impact…
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Communism and Preferences
By Pete Boettke
In response to my post on Fly in a Bottle, Scott Cunningham (of the University of Georgia) pointed me to this new NBER paper by Alberta Alesina and Nichola Fuchs…
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Does Social Change depend on the Electoral System?
By Pete Boettke
Two recent elections in Germany and New Zealand have reminded us in what way some electoral systems can create difficulties and can accentuate the well-studied problems associated with voting. That…
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Mentors and Me
By Pete Boettke
There is a growing concern at universities to make sure that the mentor relationship between faculty and graduate students is well understood and developed. Here is an example of the…
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Is it time to sell short?
By Pete Boettke
As you read what I am about to write remember the following --- First, I am an academic economist and not an investment guru. If I really knew what the…
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Fly in a Bottle
By Pete Boettke
Paul Lewis of King's College University of London presented his paper "Subjectivism, Social Structure and the Possibility of Socio-Economic Order" at the Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. (This is…
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Did he or didn’t he do “research”?
By Pete Boettke
Tim Harford in an article praising the power of Schelling's insights he nevertheless states that the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Thomas Schelling was curious because Schelling did not…
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Does Anyone Have a Theory of Social Change?
By Pete Boettke
The Strategy of Conflict is perhaps Thomas Schelling’s most well-known work. As Peter Boettke and Tyler Cowen explained, Schelling’s work has put meat around the bones of game theory and…
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Is the Nobel a Lagging or Leading Indicator?
By Pete Boettke
Mario Rizzo at NYU writes to raise some serious doubts that we should ever get too excited about the Nobel selection:The Nobel prize in economics may not be important except…
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Mathematical Reasoning and the Art of Political Economy
By Pete Boettke
Kenneth Boulding is one of my favorite authors in economics. In 1948, Boulding reviewed Samuelson's Foundations in the JPE. Samuelson had argued that mathematical economics would rid economics of the…