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Is there a non-“structural” explanation of a macro-cycle?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Lewin| An interesting, but (to me) confusing editorial by Ed. Lazear appeared recently in the WSJ here. He argues “There Is No ‘Structural’ Unemployment Problem” that, “A look at…
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More at Cato Unbound
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz In addition to an earlier reply to Bryan Caplan, I now have a second follow-up piece posted there with one more to come Tuesday morning. I argue in…
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Don Lavoie Graduate Student Essay Competition — 2012
By Pete Boettke
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce that submissions for the 2012 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition are now being accepted. Submissions will…
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What Good Are Labels in Scientific Discourse?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| When a fellow economist labels someone in the field it is usually because it serves as a short-hand for a set of arguments and beliefs, and/or area of…
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Quotes of the day inspired by recent ECB and Fed actions
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The first from F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (1960, 338-339) "The increased dependence of the individual upon government which inflation produces and the demand for move…
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Is Austrian Economics Empirical? This Month’s Cato Unbound
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz I have the lead essay at the September Cato Unbound, which is on the "theory and practice of Austrian economics." My essay is "The Empirics of Austrian Economics"…
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The Unintended Consequences of Ultra Easy Monetary Policy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| William White has a new working paper available through the Dallas Fed, "Ultra Easy Monetary Policy and the Law of Unintended Consequences." In the paper he argues: The…
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Did the Fed Really Lend $16 Trillion to Foreign Banks?
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz There's been some chatter on the right about the release on Friday of the GAO preliminary report on the audit of the Fed. The one thing that seems…
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The Chicago Plan Revisited
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That is the title of a new working paper from the IMF. I would be very interested in hearing the opinions of Steve Horwitz, Larry White, George Selgin,…
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Lionel Robbins on the Importance of Scholarship Within Economics and Economic Policy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I will be teaching Modern History of Economic Thought again starting tomorrow (Econ 821 in the GMU catalogue of classes for PhD students). This term I am going…