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By Pete Boettke
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It Takes Varied Reiterations to Force Alien Concepts Upon Reluctant Minds
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That quote, which I believe comes from Herbert Spencer, was often stated in my classes with Professor James Buchanan. It is not intended as a knock, but as…
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Review of The Great Persuasion and other recent essays and interviews
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| My review of Angus Burgin's The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression (Harvard, 2012) has been published at the Library of Law & Liberty. Also, see…
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Implications of Machlup’s Interpretation of Mises’s Epistemology
By Pete Boettke
We argue that Machlup's (1955) interpretation of Mises’s epistemology is at least, if not more, plausible than Rothbard's (1957). The implications of Machlup’s interpretation of Mises and Austrian epistemology affect…
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Efficient Institutions are Context Dependent
By Pete Boettke
Peter T. Leeson I’m grateful to Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson for their most recent post in our exchange. In it they pose several important questions, two of which in…
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Why did Pirates Choose Democracy?, and Some Thoughts on the “Efficient Institutions View”
By Pete Boettke
Peter T. Leeson On WhyNationsFail.com, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson provide a fascinating discussion of pirate democracy in which they were kind enough to discuss my work on the subject.…
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APEE 2013 April 14-16
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The annual meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education begins tonight. I will try to live blog from the meetings if I can. Here is a photo…
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A Reappraisal of Hayek’s Epistemic Market Liberalism
By Pete Boettke
Chris Coyne Epistemic arguments play a significant role in the foundations of market liberalism as exemplified, in particular, by the work of F. A. Hayek. Competition in free markets is…
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Why We Still Need to Read Hayek
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| John Taylor's Hayek Lecture at Duke.
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A Second Look at Capitalism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The NYT recently wrote the following: “A specter is haunting university history departments: the specter of capitalism. After decades of ‘history from below,’ focusing on women, minorities and…
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Living Economics Talk at FFF
By Pete Boettke
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