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Newsflash: Crony Capitalism is a Creature of the State
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| My colleague Matt Mitchell is presenting his paper "The Pathology of Privilege: The Economic Consequences of Government Favoritism." Matt is part of the research team at Mercatus set…
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Battling Over the Enlightenment
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I recently walked into a room of graduate students with a copy of Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation (very thin essay) and Jonathan Israel's Democratic Enlightenment (over 1000…
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Life Imitating Art: The Stigler Version
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| An Italian court found scientists guilty of manslaughter by not correctly predicting an earthquake. Read the account in Nature of the case. The subtlities of this particular case…
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SDAE Annual Dinner Information
By Pete Boettke
Our annual SDAE dinner and business meeting will take place on Saturday night, November 17th at the SEA host Sheraton in New Orleans. We will be starting with drinks and…
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The Other Dream Team (a comparative political and economic systems
By Pete Boettke
The Other Dream Team (a comparative political and economic systems story) |Peter Boettke| Posted by Peter Boettke on October 19, 2012 at 10:54 AM | Permalink |
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Carl Menger Essay Contest Winners
By Pete Boettke
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Carl Menger Essay Contest for undergraduate students. Jeremy Horpedahl, Emily Skarbek, and Daniel…
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Life Without Capitalism?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| TFAS video to get you to think about life without capitalism -- join the conversation.
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Gordon Tullock on Economics and the Everyman
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In an essay responding to Dan Klein's "A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty," Eastern Economic Journal (Spring 2001), Tullock only has one slight objection to Klein's essay,…
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Herb Simon’s Scissors and the Open Ended Models of Choice in Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Herbert Simon used the analogy of the blades of a scissor to explain human decision making ... one blade represents cognitive capabilities of the decision maker, the other…
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Happy Birthday to Chris Coyne
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Chris Coyne celebrates his birthday today. Chris is currently the F. A. Harper Professor of Economics, and the Director of Graduate Studies at George Mason University. He is…