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A Dialogue on William Easterly’s The Tyranny of Experts at the World Bank
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| William Easterly toured DC last week to discuss his new book, The Tyranny of Experts. On Wednesday, he returned to the World Bank to engage in a dialogue…
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Happy Birthday Professor Hayek
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| May 8, 1899 is Hayek's birthdate. Gerald O'Driscoll has a nice piece at Investor's Business Daily on the staying power of Hayek's intellectual achievement at 115 years and…
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Gary Becker and Economic Imperialism
By Pete Boettke
~Frederic Sautet~ Among his many achievements, one that we can be thankful for was Gary Becker’s non-compromising attitude with regard to the application of economic reasoning. Take for instance his…
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Gary Becker (1930-2014) — An Economist for the Ages
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The economics profession lost, as Tyler Cowen put it, perhaps its greatest living practitioner on May 3rd. I consider myself very fortunate to have met Gary Becker several…
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Have We Had This Discussion Before? Revisiting the LSE in the 1930s
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Thomas Piketty has become quite a sensation with Capital in the 21st Century. I have yet to make my way through the book, but I have been following…
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Time to Buy — Impact Scholars in Political Economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Ben Powell and Pete Leeson are rising stars in the disciplines of economics and political economy. (Both are in that first decade range of getting their PhD --…
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Complexity, Frameworks and Laissez Faire Activism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Edward Lopez did me the great honor of organizing an 'author meets his critic' session at the recent APEE meetings on my Living Economics (2012).* David Colander was…
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What is the point of punishment?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This, and other questions, is what animates Morris Hoffman's new book, The Punisher's Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury. Hoffman's book is part of the Cambridge Studies…
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Some Thoughts on Equal Pay Day
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Yesterday was Equal Pay Day and my Facebook reposting of my Learn Liberty video on the gender wage gap generated a whole bunch of discussion both on the…
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Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) 2014
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In a few days Las Vegas will once again be the meeting place for the Association of Private Enterprise Education. You can browse the conference sessions here. The…