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By Pete Boettke
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‘An Engine of Creativity Without a Clutch’
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is how my teacher Kenneth Boulding described his teacher Frank Knight. I was simultaneously a student of 2 of Knight's students -- Boulding and James Buchanan --…
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Even Master Jugglers Fail Sometimes
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman wrote that "Any system that gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men that mistakes -- whether excusable…
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Institutional Diversity and Political Economy: The Ostroms and Beyond
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the title of the fantastic book that has just been published by Oxford University Press written by my colleague Paul Dragos Aligica. Paul studied with the…
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Economics Teaches Us Humility |Peter Boettke| Posted by Peter Boettke
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Economics Teaches Us Humility |Peter Boettke| Posted by Peter Boettke on October 15, 2013 at 09:44 AM | Permalink |
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The Economics Analysis of Financial Markets — A Nobel Prize Long Expected
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Three American's were awarded the Nobel Prize today. Eugene Fama had long been an expectant Nobel Prize winner for his development of the efficient market theory in finance.…
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Happy Birthday Walter Grinder
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Kurt Schuler, John Hagel and Chuck Moulton organized an online tribute to honor Walter Grinder on his 75th birthday. As mentioned in several of the tributes, Walter played…
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New Working Paper on Hayek and Mainstream Microeconomics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In a new working paper Kyle O'Donnell and I argue that the mainstream literature in microeconomics engaged in a failed appropriation of Hayek's central insights on knowledge and…
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World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The announcement of the forming of a new international scholarly association -- World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) -- has been circulating --- Download WINIR. Readers of…
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Profit and LOSS System and the Analogy in the Republic of Science
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| We often talk about the marketplace of ideas to reflect the contestation of ideas that constitutes the scientific enterprise. Science is hard work, and being wrong in science…
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James M. Buchanan: A Celebration of Scholarship
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| George Mason University hosted a weekend long celebration of the scholarship of the late James M. Buchanan. Many of Buchanan's former colleagues and students from UVa, VPI, and…