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By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
The Economics of the Undead
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz One of the more fun projects I've worked on recently was Economics of the Undead, edited by Glen Whitman and James Dow. That book just came out will…
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Howard Stern and Off Setting Behavior — America’s Got Talent
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| On last night's highlight show of America's Got Talent, Howard Stern made a brilliant observation. After a segement dealing with the worst auditions for the 2014 season, Stern…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly … of crony capitalism?!
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Paul Rubin is an economic thinker I respect tremendously, but I am not sure I agree with him here. I do agree with live in the 2nd best…
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Is It a Performative Contradiction to Be So Confident That People Are Wrong Who Think They Are Right?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I have argued that mainline economics teaches us to have humility. I often quote Hayek saying: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little…
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Social Cooperation Even In Unfavorable Circumstances — what does it teach us?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Social cooperation under the division of labor is the central theme of economics even if it isn't always stated precisely that way. This theme permeates economics from the…
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Understanding Academic Success and Influence in One Picture
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Sometimes debates flar up on blogs, FB and Twitter and other forms of social media about what influence academics have and how would one measure influence in a…
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Kirzner on Rothbard — a flawed genius
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This is from a segment of a larger interview with Israel Kirzner. I agree with both his assessment of Rothbard's talents and that despite Rothbard's own recognition of…
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Eric Maskin on Globalization and Inequality
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The concern with inequality isn't just a Piketty thing. But this lecture by an obviously brilliant man, demonstrates how difficult it is to think about this issue analytically…
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Stiglitz and Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Joe Stiglitz argues in NYT that inequality is not inevitable. Violent extremes in wealth and income are not inherent in the operation of capitalism. They result, instead Stiglitz…
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Searching for the Texture of Inequality: Glen Loury and Rajiv Sethi Talk Piketty
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| On Bloggingheads.tv. Enjoy. Here is Sethi's discussion of the plots and subplots of Piketty's book.