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By Pete Boettke
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Ideas Matter — their development, their dissemination, and their impact on public discourse
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This is a video of Janek Wasserman from a few years back introducing himself, but I particularly like the part where he describes his self-understanding as an intellectual…
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A taste of a treasure trove for intellectual historians of 20th century political economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| James M. Buchanan, I would argue, is more responsible than any other 20th century figure for the renewal of political economy -- even more so than F. A.…
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Starting 2021 re-examining 1871 and Menger’s fundamental contributions to economic theory
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Richard Ebeling has an overview of the contributions of Carl Menger's Principles of Economics. It is a valuable way to start the new year.
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|Peter Boettke| My tribute to Walter Williams (1936-2020) from The
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| My tribute to Walter Williams (1936-2020) from The City Journal. Many other heartfelt tributes have been published, many by former students, and two lengthy obituaries were published in…
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SDAE Virtual Meeting for 2020 — November 21st at 10:00am — PLEASE Join Us
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| SDAE Business Meeting: 10:00 AM CST on November 21 via ZoomPrize announcements, elections, and Richard Ebeling's presidential address SDAE Virtual Happy Hour: 6:30 PM CST on November 21…
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Ludwig Lachmann and the Distinguishing Features of the Austrian School of Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Simply put, Lachmann argues we are subjectivist and we mean it. But the implications of this radical subjectivist stance are neither nihilistic nor trivial for the science of…
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Imagination, Expectations, and Economic Calculation in an Open-ended Process
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| GLS Shackle famously argued that while the future was unknowable, it was not unimaginable. Shackle's great strength as a thinker was to get his reader to take seriously…
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October 10, 1973 — the Day Ludwig von Mises Died
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| On this day in 1973, the Mets beat the Reds in the National League Championship to make the World Series, where they would eventually lose to the Oakland…
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Our Understanding of The Methodenstreit Enriched
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I greatly appreciate the efforts by Karen Horn and Stefan Kolev, and of course Dan Klein to make this paper available in English translation. It is invaluable to…
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My Review of Wasserman’s The Marginal Revolutionaries
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz The first part of my three-part review of Janek Wasserman's *The Marginal Revolutionaries* is now up at EconLib. Parts 2 and 3 will follow on Monday and Wednesday.…