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Kirzner?
By Pete Boettke
As a follow up to my post on the Nobel Prize, let me give my two overwhelming reasons why Israel M. Kirzner should be honored with this recognition. 1. From…
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Nobel Time Again
By Pete Boettke
Over the next month economists throughout the world will once again engage in the annual debate over who will win the Nobel Prize in economic science. According to Tyler Cowen,…
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Let Me “Edutain” You
By Pete Boettke
The Teaching Company is one of the most innovative enterprises in the delivery of educational products that I am aware of. I purchased my first products from them in 1992…
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Graduate School in Real Time
By Pete Boettke
I loved graduate school --- absolutely loved it. David Prychitko and I have tried to capture our time as graduate students at GMU in our introduction "The Present Status of…
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Schumpeter & the Political Economy of Sustained Prosperity
By Pete Boettke
I have just reviewed Schumpeter’s Market: Enterprise and Evolution by David Reisman (published on EH.Net). Reisman’s book focuses on “three irreducible constructs” of Joseph Schumpeter’s work: market, enterprise, and evolution.…
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APSA Report
By Pete Boettke
This past weekend was the annual American Political Science Association Meetings in Washington, DC. On Saturday I participated in a round-table discussion of Douglass North's Understanding the Process of Economic…
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Is Libertarianism a viable policy prescription in the time of crisis?
By Pete Boettke
The answer to that question is --- "more than ever!" This blog site is devoted to Austrian economics and not the libertarian implications of the persistent and consistent application of…
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Catastrophe
By Pete Boettke
President Bush has refereed to Hurricane Katrina as "one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history." Hyperbola aside, there is no doubt that the consequences have been catastrophic…
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Bastiat Spinning; Hazlitt Heaving
By Pete Boettke
It was only a matter of time before "bad" economics would show itself in the wake of the recent events in New Orleans. But here is what some "economists" have…
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The Data of Development
By Pete Boettke
Why are some countries rich and others poor? This vexing question has preoccupied the best minds in economics since at least Adam Smith's An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes…