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Tyler Cowen Teaching Hayek’s Contribution to the Socialist Calculation Debate
By Pete Boettke
Tyler Cowen Teaching Hayek's Contribution to the Socialist Calculation Debate |Peter Boettke| Posted by Peter Boettke on March 24, 2015 at 04:25 PM | Permalink |
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Don’t Confuse Mechanisms With Solutions
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Many years ago now the social scientist Jon Elster made a Plea for Mechanisms in his Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions (1998). I have always…
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Mercatus MA in Economic Fellowships
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| A George Mason University MA in Economics pays off. The program was recently ranked #30 in the US, and our placement record is actually quite strong for the…
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Knowledge Problems and Computational Complexity in Pareto
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| "Let us make the hypothesis most favorable to such a calculation; assume that we have overcome all the difficulties in the way of acquiring knowledge of the data…
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Manhattan Institute Hayek Prize Goes to Jim Grant for The Forgotten Depression, 1921
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| It was a very competitive field, but the committee chose Jim Grant's book for the 2015 Hayek Prize. On the Manhattan Institute website you can listen to the…
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Call for Papers: 2015 SDAE meetings (New Orleans, November 21-23, 2015)
By Pete Boettke
The annual conference of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics will be held during the Southern Economics Association meetings in New Orleans Marriott. Members interested in presenting papers,…
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And the Oscar Goes to … Everyday Economics!
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Not quite the Oscar, but still a well deserved nomination. My colleagues Don Boudreaux, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution University (and the producer Roman Hardgrave)…
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Institutional Sources of America’s Fiscal Tragedy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| 'The Great Recession was a consequences of the rules breaking down, not of the market failing.' Watch this lecture from 2012 by James M. Buchanan.
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Accepting Applications for 2015-2016 Adam Smith and Bastiat Fellowships
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| One of the more ambitious and exciting educational ventures we have launched at the Mercatus Center at GMU over the past few years is our Adam Smith Fellows.…
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“Play Hard, Play Smart, Have Fun” — Off to Texas Tech
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The mantra of 'play hard, play smart, have fun' is something the basketball teams I coached from elementary school to MS to CYO to HS to AAU. It…