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Is Debt Forgiveness the Answer to the Sluggish Recovery?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Robert Skidelsky suggest so in a recent essay "Down with Debt Weight". I personally think a lot of deficits and debt talk among economists and the public confuses…
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What Can Economists Know? |Peter Boettke| Posted by Peter Boettke
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What Can Economists Know? |Peter Boettke| Posted by Peter Boettke on April 18, 2012 at 11:12 PM | Permalink |
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Time Selects Lin Ostrom As One of the 100 Most Influential People
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Time selects Lin Ostrom --- very well deserved recognition. See the discussion and links at Mercatus's website. Also see my appreciation of her work at The Freeman. Paul…
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Does Foreign Aid Erode the Culture of Contracting in Developing Economies?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Read the working paper by Chris Coyne and Claudia Williamson. Also see the discussion of the topic at NYU's Development Research Institute. HT: Claire Morgan
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Imperfect Knowledge Economics as Core INET Research Program
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| INET has announced that Imperfect Knowledge Economics is one of its main research programs, and that INET has established the INET Center for Imperfect Knowledge Economics at the…
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Mises, Hazlitt, and Rule Consequentialism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Mario Rizzo uses the term "rule consequentialism" to describe Mises's social philosophy. I think that is right. His scientific approach to economics is a version of the Weberian…
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Administrivia: Comment Authentication
By Pete Boettke
Folks, Yes, we hate Captcha too. We have disabled it and moved to email address authentication. The pre-Captcha system had done a good job in cutting down on spam, but…
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The Social Philosophy of Ludwig von Mises is Not the Same as Either Murray Rothbard’s or Ayn Rand’s
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Cato Unbound has a symposium on a "Bleeding Heart History of Libertarianism" by Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi. There is much to recommend in the essay and the…
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Development Economics to Believe In — Private Schooling in Less Developed Economies
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Prof. Pauline Dixon is one of the great spokespersons for private schooling throughout the world. Her work has taken her into the field all over the world, and…
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New Working Paper on Henry Hazlitt
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I have written a paper, "The Public Intellectual as Economist: The Case of Henry Hazlitt," which I will present at a conference at Duke University next week. Hazlitt's…