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By Pete Boettke
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A Few Thoughts on Tapering and the Real Economy
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz That's what I have today at the LSE blog on US Politics and Policy. A snippet: "The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to begin to taper off its quantitative…
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Models as Maps, and Economics as a Tool for Social Understanding
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I love thinking about economic theory, the puzzles, the paradoxes, and just the logic of a well constructed economic argument. I am also struck by the beauty of…
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Inflation — No Big Deal, Until It Is A Big Deal
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Lost in much of the discussion surrounding the raising of the minimum wage is the cummulative effect of inflation, though it is obviously a major part of the…
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Is this the best non-fiction work of 2013?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Jeremy Adelman's Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton, 2013). It is certainly a deeply researched work about a fascinating thinker. So I would agree with…
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Bruno Leoni (1913-1967) at 100
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I was set to speak today at Cato on "Hayek, Leoni and the Law as a Fifty Factor of Production." Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate and the…
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The Political Economy of Forgiveness
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The death of Nelson Mandela should result in political economists thinking about the importance of pivotal people at pivotal times in the affairs of men. We aren't that…
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“You can blow out a candle, But you can’t blow out a fire; Once the flames begin to catch, The wind will blow it higher”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Those words are from Peter Gabriel's 1980 song about South African anti-apartheid activist, Steven Biko, who was arrested and beaten to death by South African police in 1977.…
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Education and the World’s Poor — Entrepreneurship Not Aid is the Solution
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Economists and political economists since the founding of our discipline have been vexed by the question as to why some countries are rich while other countries languish in…
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Happy Thanksgiving 2013
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Thanksgiving is actually my favorite holiday only because of the great memories I have from my childhood of the day, and the wonderful times that Rosemary has created…
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Was JFK conservative (on taxes)?
By Pete Boettke
~ Frederic Sautet ~ Fifty years after the death of US President Kennedy, some, such as Ira Stoll in JFK, Conservative, argue that by today’s standards he should be considered…