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Coordination Problem
By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
Telling You That You Need to Write is One Thing, But Learning How to Write is Another
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The insightful and wise Michael Munger told you that if you want to be a successful academic you need to publish, which means you need to actually sit…
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Democracy in Deficit and holding A Tiger By the Tail
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Since 2008, I have argued that to gain an understanding on the current situation economists should consult James Buchanan and Richard Wagner's Democracy in Deficit and Hayek's A…
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Seeing Like an Anarchist
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Chris Blattman in reflecting upon James Scott's latest book, Two Cheers for Anarchism, argues that viewing the puzzles of development through the eyes of an anarchist opens up…
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Best Advice You Will Read Today If You Are An Aspiring Academic
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Mike Munger provides some common-sense wisdom about this business of ours.
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Economics as a Tool for the State, Rather than a Window to Enlightenment
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Ronald Coase -- even at 102 years of age -- still has that rare gift -- simple and clear argument in economic thinking. In bemoaning the drift of…
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Law, Economics, and Superstition: Human Sacrifice
By Pete Boettke
The most recent paper in my continuing project on the law and economics of superstition: “Human Sacrifice.” Abstract: This paper develops a theory of rational human sacrifice: the purchase and…
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Is Corruption Bad for Growth?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| It is common-place for folks to claim that the reason why poor countries are poor is because they are plagued with corrpution. And there should be no doubt…
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The Review of Austrian Economics – Vol 25, Iss 4
By Pete Boettke
The latest issue of The Review of Austrian Economics has just been published. The issue includes Richard Wagner's SDAE Presidential Address, Lynne Kiesling on neuroscience and Adam Smith's concept of…
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I Pencil, the Movie
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz I do not have words for how beautiful and inspiring and perfect this is. Directed by Nick Tucker, this could not have been done better. I start every…
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Austrians and Lazear & Speltzer on Structural Unemployment
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz I had reason today to re-read this post of Peter Lewin's from September on the Lazear and Speltzer stuff denying that we have a structural unemployment problem. Peter…