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By Pete Boettke
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The Idle Rich are Never Really Idle
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In my narrative of 20th and now 21st century economics and public policy, the Keynesian hegemony resulted not due to superior analysis but because Keynes struck the right…
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Edward Lazear on Becker on EconTalk
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Great discussion between Russ Roberts and Eddie Lazear on Gary Becker.
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Forty Years Ago in a Little Town in Vermont
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| During the week of June 15-22, 1974 the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) sponsored a conference in the little town of South Royalton, Vermont that would result in…
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Theory, History and Industrial Policy — Joe Stiglitz’s View on Creating the Learning Economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| If anyone doesn't believe that theory guides interpretation of the "facts", then consider the latest from Joe Stiglitz, Creating a Learning Society. To anyone who has followed Stiglitz's…
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Not a Scandal, Just Incentives — VA Hospitals
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In the DC area, the McLean Bible Church broadcasts messages --- Not a Sermon, Just a Thought --- which takes everyday life issues and relates them to bible…
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Robert Leeson, Hayek and the Underpants Gnomes
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| There has been ongoing flame war going on at the SHOE list, which is the discussion list for history of economics. The list generally serves as a means…
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Diane Coyle — She is Sure One Enlightened Economist
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| There is a genre of writing in economics --- it isn't really journalism, and it isn't really scientific journal writing, and yet it also isn't really "big think"…
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‘the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls’
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The quote above comes from George Orwell's essay on Charles Dickens. Orwell describes a true liberal as a bold intellect that is equally hated by all those 'smelly'…
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A Scandal in Bohemia: On Facts, Theories, and Interpretations
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In Arthur Conan Doyle's short story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", Sherlock Holmes states: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to…
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Public Policy and Refractory Reality
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| It seems to be important to stress in the contemporary policy discussions that intentions do not always equal results. Seems strange to have to point out this basic…