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A Quick Contest For Undergraduates
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Attention undergraduates: Here is an opportunity for you to get published. Take a look at today's Doonesbury as it's chock full of bad economics. I would like to…
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Hello Mother, Hello Father*: Summer Camp 2012
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I have been continuously attending summer camps since 1973, when I attended my first weeklong basketball camp. I first attended basketball camp, then worked basketball camp, then worked…
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Lin Ostrom on “The Future of the Commons: Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation.”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Earlier this spring, on March 29th, Lin Ostrom presented the 21st Hayek Memorial Lecture for the Institute of Economic Affairs. IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture: Prof Elinor Ostrom speaks…
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Hard-Nosed Positive Analysis, Imaginative Normative Thinking About Institutional Innovation
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| James Buchanan on William Niskanen and the problem of discriminatory democracy.
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Discussion on Austrian Economics at “Critical Thinking Applied”
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Over at the "Critical Thinking Applied" blog, one of whose contributors is my friend Jeff Ellis, I have a guest post this morning responding to an earlier post…
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“We can’t do with philosophical definition a job that needs to be done with factual inquiry.”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| That quote comes from Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Virtues and expresses in my mind the critical importance for political and social philosophy to be grounded in economics and economic…
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Question About the Economics of E-Books
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| First, an admission ... I am a late experimenter with e-books and not all that satisfied with the experience as a reader in that format, though I appreciate…
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Lin’s Last Word — One Size Fits All Public Policy Would Be A Grave Mistake
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Elinor Ostrom had a contribution planned for Project Syndicate that was published yesterday -- "Green from the Grassroots". Many will focus on the first word in the title,…
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Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Sad news this morning that Lin Ostrom passed away. She leaves behind her husband Vincent, with whom she worked throughout her 50 year career, and numerous former students,…
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New Issue of EJP&E
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The new issue of the Erasmus Journal of Philosophy & Economics is out and it contains a review of The Handbook of Contemporary Austrian Economics, as well as…