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Coordination Problem
By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
EWOT Morning Edition — Israeli Dads, Indian Moms, and Nepal Births
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Economists are often accused of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. This is a weak criticism. Economists -- well those economists who actually practice…
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As Baltimore Burns … Economists Have to Think Harder
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Watching the peaceful protests transform into a riot in Baltimore on Monday was horrific, but it should also trigger some serious thinking in the social and behavioral sciences…
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New Thinking; New Voices in Economics ???
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The Institute for New Economic Thinking will be hosting an event in DC on May 5-6 on the topic of Finance & Society. The conference agenda features some…
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Babies, Dates, Kidneys …. really??????
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Match.com was launched on April 21, 1995, the idea was to use a matching algorithm to coordinate the search process between potential romantic partners. A survey conducted in…
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How can a man be both free and yet bound by wills not his own?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| If you haven't already done so, rush quickly and listen to the EconTalk episode with Mike Munger on his new book Choosing in Groups. Mike and Russ always…
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Economic Ethnography as a form of Analytic Narrative — the empirical side of comparative political economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Under the influence of Don Lavoie in the 1980s, some faculty and graduate students (me among them) sought to pursue alternative empirical strategies in economics and political economy…
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Preparation for Sachs
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Tyler Cowen and Jeff Sachs will have a conversation today at Mercatus about The Future of Development Economics. These "Conversations with Tyler" are a new featured event at…
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Tyler Cowen on Inequality and Mobility, and a Conversation with Jeff Sachs on The Future of Economic Development
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| One of the many amazing things of working with Tyler Cowen is that he seems to be everywhere raising provocative questions and pushing those around him to be…
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Assessing Bohm-Bawerk
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Bohm-Bawerk was one of the most accomplished economists of his era -- and was rightly recognized as such throughout the world. I have often thought that the Society…
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Constraining Leviathan is a Positive Project With a Normative Purpose
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| James Buchanan once remarked that "Political economists stress the technical economic principles that one must understand in order to assess alternative arrangements for promoting peaceful cooperation and productive…