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By Pete Boettke
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The Evolution of Precedent
By Pete Boettke
Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer have an excellent working paper out on "The Evolution of Precedent." Their paper investigates the oft-heard claim that common law converges to efficient legal rules.…
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Will Microcredit Ever Help the Poor?
By Pete Boettke
Helping poor people help themselves is the main idea behind microcredit. Because a whole stratum of society in developing countries has no access to bank credit, microcredit (as well as…
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Research Seminars
By Pete Boettke
My favorite work on intellectual movements is Randall Collins The Sociology of Philosophies (Harvard University Press, 2000). The book is over 1000 pages long and provides a detailed analysis of…
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How to Succeed in Graduate School (for those seeking an academic career)
By Pete Boettke
Tomorrow I have the orientation for the new graduate students attending our program. This is a talented and interesting class on paper. We had 200 applicants to our PhD program,…
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What Role for Liberalism in the War on Terror?
By Pete Boettke
This week's Economist has an interesting article, "For jihadist, read anarchist." The article attempts to draw parallels between the left anarchist bombings of the 19th century and the present day…
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Why Aren’t Institutions Like Can-Openers?
By Pete Boettke
In focusing on the transition problem, I have been struck by how simple the economics of transition are, and how, in contrast, difficult the political, legal and social aspects of…
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The Mercatus Policy Series
By Pete Boettke
One of my responsibilities at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is to be the editor (and sometimes author or co-author) of a new policy publication: The Mercatus Policy…
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Google Discovery of Your Own Work
By Pete Boettke
In preparing for my constitutional economic class this fall I was doing some background searching on the internet focusing on Adam Smith's statement from his 1755 notebooks where he states:Little…
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On Being an Economist
By Pete Boettke
Walter Block over at the Mises Blog has posted his advice to young Austrian economists in academia. For anyone who has followed either the Mises or Hayek discussion lists the…
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Popular Scientific Writing and Austrian Economics
By Pete Boettke
I am a big fan of popular science writing. Books by scientific journalists present the material from the journals in a discipline that would be difficult for the average person…