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By Pete Boettke
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The Power of Private Giving
By Pete Boettke
A recent article in Time points to a new trend in reality television: the power of private charity. For decades, classical liberals have argued that effective social insurance does not…
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Austrian Economics in the Wild West
By Pete Boettke
I’ve just come back from a sojourn at PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana – a retreat away from the buzz of the office to work…
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On Teaching Economics
By Pete Boettke
I recently gave a lecture at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY. FEE is the oldest market oriented think-tank and educational resource in the United States having been…
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Man Wants Liberty to Become the Man He Wants to Become
By Pete Boettke
Each fall I teach a graduate seminar to PhD students on Constitutional Economics. This field of research in economics is inspired by the work of James Buchanan, the 1986 Nobel…
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The Boom and Bust of Interaction and Exchange: A New Application of ABC
By Pete Boettke
The Austrian theory of the business cycle is among the most interesting and distinctly "Austrian" ideas in the school of thought. The basic story is a simple one: Manipulation of…
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Happiness and Economics
By Pete Boettke
There is a growing literature in the area of Happiness and Economics - see here, here, here. For the most part studies in this area rely on survey data where…
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QJAE – summer issue
By Pete Boettke
Issue 8(2) of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is now available online. I especially enjoyed David Andersson's, "The Spatial Nature of Entrepreneurship." The core argument:A spatial extension of the…
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The Hour Glass Shape of Economics and Political Economy in the 20th Century
By Pete Boettke
David Warsh at Economic Principals has for decades written intelligently on economic issues. I first became aware of Warsh's work through Tyler Cowen in 1984. Tyler and I at the…
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Who Enforces International Trade?
By Pete Boettke
A recent article in The Economist discusses the on-going flap about the economic benefits of the WTO. UC-Berkeley economist Andrew Rose published an excellent paper on this issue last year…
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The Political Economy of Forgiveness
By Pete Boettke
On the radio show Speaking of Faith this past week there was an interesting discussion with Yale theologian Miroslav Volf on the topic of Christianity and violence. During this wide…