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By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
Like This and Like That and Like This …
By Pete Boettke
The New York Times on Tuesday reported that the Governors of several states are demanding a government inquiry into gasoline prices and a remedy to consumers in their states if…
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Scientism
By Pete Boettke
The effort by economists to ape the scientific methodology of the natural sciences is one of the most intellectually dangerous ideas of the 20th century. Unfortunately, despite the rise in…
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Is The Past a Prologue?
By Pete Boettke
One of my favorite essays in economics is Kenneth Boulding's "After Samuelson Who Needs Smith?" History of Political Economy (1971). My fascination with the history of economic thought started in…
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Why Aren’t Austrians at the Discussion Table?
By Pete Boettke
A good chunk of the recent literature on the economics of development deals with very Austrian themes: planning vs. markets. For instance, Bill Easterly came last year to the PPE…
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Is the Law a Factor of Production?
By Pete Boettke
In the confirmation hearings for John Roberts, Roberts has insisted that his overarching principle is the rule of law. An important part of his responses to questions from the committee…
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The Samaritan’s Dilemma and Public Policy
By Pete Boettke
James Buchanan's essay on "The Samaritan's Dilemma" presents a particular challenge to those who want to provide assistance to those in need. The existence of assistance may in fact induce…
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The Political Economy of FEMA: Gov’t Failure and Private Correction in New Orleans
By Pete Boettke
With the recent disastrous events of New Orleans and elsewhere in the U.S. questions about the efficacy of FEMA, the state's agency of federal emergency relief, have arisen. In a…
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Complexity and the Market Process
By Pete Boettke
In a very interesting paper in the Economic Journal, Robert Axtell discusses "The Complexity of Exchange." Axtell’s basic argument is that attempts to have purposive software agents replicate the Arrow-Hahn-Debreu…
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Then and Now — GCC
By Pete Boettke
I am a proud graduate of Grove City College. It was there that I was introduced to the writings of the Austrian School Economists by Dr. Hans Sennholz. I was…
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Entrepreneurship: the Alpha and the Omega of Economics
By Pete Boettke
Entrepreneurship: my favorite subject, the alpha and the omega of economics, at once the most fascinating and the least-studied subject by economists! As Pete Boettke explained in his entry on…