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Coordination Problem
By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
Before There Was “I am John Galt” There was “I am Ned Ludd”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Well the analogy doesn't quite work, but mythologies and social change are often critical factors. In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the producers in society go on strike and…
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There Is No Magic Bullet in Development
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is what Marshall Poe concludes as the punch line for Robin Grier and Jerry Hough's The Long Process of Development. As he puts it, development in the…
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Scalable and Sustainable? We will see …
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Can targeted aid lift individuals out of extreme poverty? And are randomized controlled experiments the most effective way to scientifically study development? Nature reports on a large multi-country…
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‘We Don’t See What We Don’t Expect to See’ and what that means for innovation in science, commerce, policy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Mapping narrative research with complex adaptive systems theory.
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Innovation in Helping the World’s Poor
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| At the Mercatus Center over the past decade or more we have engaged in various research initiatives. One of the first was our Global Prosperity Initiative. This project…
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Coming to a Library Near You — The Economic Role of the State
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Publication date is July 2015, please get your library order in. Click here for the Edward Elgar pre-publication site and how to order for your library. BTW, Pete…
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Happy Birthday Professor Hayek!
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Today is Hayek's 116th birthday and his ideas and personal history have become a growth industry. At the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics…
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There Are Only So Many Notes, What Matters is The Arrangement
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Peter Klein recently discussed a paper dealing with innovation. The argument presented is straightforward --- there are only so many ideas, creativity isn't really about thinking thoughts that…
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Stephen Miller — Teacher/Scholar/Academic Entrepreneur
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| On FB this morning I read with excitement the announcement that Stephen Miller has accepted the position as the Executive Director of the Manuel H. Johnson Center for…
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François Michelin, RIP
By Pete Boettke
~ Frederic Sautet ~ François Michelin, former CEO-Managing Partner and grandson of the founder of the Michelin tires company passed away yesterday at the age of 88. He was a…