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Skidelsky on the House of Samuelson
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Robert Skidelsky's new essay "The Fall of the House of Samuelson" has a lot of interesting tidbits of 20th century history of economic thought. As he writes of…
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How Different is Economics Today From What It Was In the 1950s?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Ric Holt at the History of Economics Society discussion list recently posted this General Economics Exam from Harvard given in 1953. Most of the discussion is how different…
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‘I thought science was better than it is’ — It should be a public contestation and not based on the old guard repressing results
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Did you know that it took 5 years for Leda Cosmides to publish her ground breaking work on cheater detection in social exchange? This interview is fascinating and…
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The Subjective and Contextual Nature of Value
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Listening to NPR this morning, I was alerted to some TED talks by Rory Sutherland. They are entertaining talks no doubt, and also 'informative' about the importance of…
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Horwitz on Piketty
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Last month, I gave a series of talks in Lithuania, including one on Piketty. I focused on the theoretical issues rather than the empirics. If you're interested in…
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Do Economists Lean Left?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| It is a popular mythology by politicians and intellectuals to claim the economics profession is a bastion of free market fundamentalism. Consider Fred Block's recent book on The…
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AEA Richard T. Ely Lecture — Raj Chetty, “Behavioral Economics and Public Policy”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Raj Chetty presented the Ely Lecture this year at the AEA meetings. Here is a video of his talk and Richard Thaler's introduction. His argument that behavioral factors…
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A New Years Gift for 2015 — Austrian Economics Re-Examined
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Gerald O'Driscoll and Mario Rizzo's classic work, The Economics of Time & Ignorance has been re-released with a lot of new material, including the previously unpublished paper "What…
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Have You Been Naughty or Nice? George Selgin Argues that He Has Been Very Nice
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Here is hoping Santa rewards George with his wish list in 2015. Dear Santa, I've been a good boy this year, as usual. But this time, For Christmas,…
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Peace on earth and goodwill toward all mankind — Merry Christmas 2014
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This is a Christmas message sent by Grove City College to alumni. Grove City is a school devoted since its founding to two fundamental principles -- faith and…