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By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
Phil Magness on Piketty
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz If you are not following the historian, and friend of us here at CP, Phil Magness's posts on the data in Piketty's book, you are missing some really…
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Khrushchev and Kitchens
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Following up on my previous link about the Soviet effort to abolish private kitchens in homes and the establishment of communal kitchens, NPR discussed the next chapter in…
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The Piketty Controversy
By Pete Boettke
Steve Horwitz Some general thoughts on the controversy over Piketty and his data. 1. We have no evidence he intentionally falsified data. There are problems and anomalies and questions about…
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Why Did the Soviets Want to Abolish Kitchens?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Kitchens are just so bourgeois. Listen to this fascinating story on the effort to abolition kitchens and the revolutionary idea of communal cafetaria and the reality of communal…
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What If John Rawls Read Milton Friedman Seriously and Empirically?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| John Rawls was an extremely brilliant man, and I have no doubt that he could say with a straight face that he knew well the arguments made by…
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Teaching Economic Transitions
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| For the first decade of my career, all of my applied work related to the Soviet economy, and in particular the problems of transitional political economy. At the…
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Quiz for the Austrian Economists Among Us
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I recently finished a draft of a review essay on J. Daniel Hammond, Steve Medema and John Singleton, eds, Chicago Price Theory, 3 volumes that I entitled "Price…
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Chris Coyne on Doing Bad By Doing Good (March 2014)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This should have been posted earlier, but here is Chris giving a talk at Lindenwood University.
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Summer Teaching 2014 … Been A Long Time But Hopefully Will Be Rewarding Experience for All
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Starting on Monday -- May 19th -- I will be teaching an undergraduate course in comparative economic systems. I haven't taught undergraduates for 2 years and I haven't…
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What Were the Monks Doing With Maledictions — Pete Leeson Explains
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| James Buchanan once described Gordon Tullock as a "natural born economist." As a student of Tullock's, Buchanan's description made perfect sense to me immediately when I first heard…