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By Pete Boettke
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‘Tis the Season for Giving
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| A free society is a "giving" society, not a "taking" one. In fact, all "taking" is limited to cases where there is a corresponding "giving". But in a…
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Economic Laws, Economic Principles, and Institutional Contingencies
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Too many non-economists believe the economic world is completely maleable to the designs of policy makers. This isn't only a problem for centrally planning socialists, but permeates even…
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Jim Otteson’s The End of Socialism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Jim Otteson's new book, The End of Socialism, should either be the last book you read in 2014, or the first book of 2015. To whet your appetite…
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Trading or Raiding — Does that Explain the Comparative Political Economy of Development?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Adam Martin being interviewed by Ben Powell on Free to Exchange.
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Remarks Read to Honor Gordon Tullock at the 2014 SEA Meetings (Extended Version)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Gordon Tullock (February 13, 1922-November 3, 2014) The great economist and political scientist Gordon Tullock passed away on November 3rd 2014 at the age of 92. Tullock was…
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Human Sociability: Learning from the Smith(s)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Russ Roberts has a new book out -- How Can Adam Smith Change Your Life -- and on a recent EconTalk episode he sat down with Vernon Smith…
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Ben Powell — A Five Tool Economic Superstar
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| When baseball scouts look at potential players they judge them against a standard of what is called a five-tool-player. Such a player can hit for a high average,…
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A Talk in Brazil About Austrian Economic as a Progressive Research Program (September 2014)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The Mises Institute Brazil has me down for their conference in September where I gave 2 talks -- one on the broad theme of Austrian economics within the…
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The End of Communism as We Knew It
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Last Sunday (November 9th 2014) marked the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The Soviet Union would collapse 2 years later on December 26th 1991…
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Pascal Salin on Money and Micro-Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| IEA has published a new monograph by Pascal Salin that I highly recommend -- Money and Micro-Economics. Highlights for me include Salin's emphasis that: "Statements about money and…