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By Pete Boettke
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Win a Trip to Hong Kong — 2014 MPS Hayek Essay Contest
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Mario Rizzo on The State and Civil Society
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Here is a video from 1999 of Mario Rizzo discussing the state and civil society. As we grapple with questions of scale and scope of government in the…
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Spring Break Reading — GMU March 10-15, 2014
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Before I can experience Spring Break 2014, I will be heading off to Charleston, SC for the Public Choice Society annual meetings. I return to NoVA on Sunday…
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Science/Scholarship and Academics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Joe Salerno publically called me out to explain my position on how a scientific/scholarly discipline advances and the role that private funding plays. He also asks me to…
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From Vienna to Virginia — RAE 27 (1) March 2014
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| New issue of the Review of Austrian Economics in now available, it consists of a symposium edited by Adam Martin and Geoffrey Lea addressing the relationship between Austrian…
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Murray Rothbard Teaching Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| As an undergraduate one of the most amazing intellectual experiences of my life was reading Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty. I had already read Milton and Rose…
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Is There Nothing New Under the Sun in the Field of Economic Policy?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| John Maynard Keynes famously argued in The General Theory that practical men who believe themselves to be devoid of the influence of academic scribblers are in fact "usually…
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Isolation and the Cognitive Capacity of Human Beings
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|Peter Boettke| Adam Smith in discussing man's propensity to 'truck, barter and exchange' famously said: "Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for…
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On Coase and Coasean Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Last night in my graduate seminar on comparative institutional analysis we discussed Ronald Coase's 1991 Nobel Lecture -- "The Institutional Structure of Production." If you haven't read it…
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The Rule of Law and Monetary Policy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty was an effort to first develop an argument philosophically and historically for the institutional superiority of the "rule of law" in promoting peaceful…