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“The Reality of the Wartime Economy” is Now Published and Online
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz The new issue of The Independent Review is out and the cover article is my paper co-authored with my former student Mike McPhillips on the wartime economy during…
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George Stigler on Carl Menger
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| As a young economist, George Stigler wrote a lot in the history of economic thought. His doctoral dissertation, 'Studies in the History of Production and Distribution,' was written…
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Religious and Overall Liberty
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Tony Gill's book -- The Political Orginis of Religious Liberty (Cambridge, 2008) -- is an excellent example of the explanatory power of the analytic narrative approach to comparative…
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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschmann (forthcoming 2013)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Jeremy Adelman's much anticipated biography of Albert Hirschmann will be published in April/May 2013. Here is a lecture he gave on Hirschmann this past October at Oxford University.…
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Microfoundations You Can Believe In
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I don't always find David Glasner's post that insightful, though they are always sincere and reflect a commitment to rendering an accurate history of the discipline of economics…
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Wishing You Happy Holidays
By Pete Boettke
Season's Greetings from George Mason University from George Mason University on Vimeo.
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UFM’s Mainline Economists Mural Video
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In my book, Living Economics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, I employ the distinction between mainline and mainstream economics. The language of mainline economics comes from one of my…
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Jeff Sachs in 2012 — From Critique of Libertarianism to Critique of Keynesianism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Back in January 2012, Jeff Sachs wrote an op-ed for the Huffington Post entitled "Libertarian Illusions", where he rejected single-minded ideology. In December 2012, however, Sachs published another…
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1950s Nostalgia for Me but Not for Thee
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz One of the more curious developments in the last couple of years has been the nostalgia for the 1950s economy from many progressives, especially Paul Krugman. They want…
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Do Technological Problems Require Only Technological Solutions?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Listening to On Point yesterday, and host Tom Ashbrook was discussing with several scientists and the editor of MIT's Technology Review Jason Pontin -- the latest issue is…