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December 21, 2019

|Peter Boettke| The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics was founded in the 1990s, while I was still an assistant professor. At the time when Karen Vaughn spearheaded the organizational effort, you could count about 20-25 professional academic economists

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Your 2019 Nobel Prize Lectures for Economic Science

By Pete Boettke

December 15, 2019

|Peter Boettke| Watch Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer

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Investment Trust Pricing and the Stock Market Crash of 1929

By Pete Boettke

December 2, 2019

Steven Horwitz My colleagues David Thomas, James Mcclure, and I have revised our paper “Efficient Derivative Pricing and Sequestered Capital: The Case of Investment Trust Pricing in 1929” once again and a new version is now available on

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Is Economics Growth a Moral Imperative?

By Pete Boettke

November 30, 2019

|Peter Boettke| Tyler Cowen delivered the 2019 Ken Arrow Lecture at Stanford. It is worth listening to every minute as it reflects the nimbleness of Tyler’s mind and his ability to see different sides of an argument and to stimulate

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The difference between 2% and 3% growth is not 1% and other vexing puzzles of progress

By Pete Boettke

November 26, 2019

|Peter Boettke| George Will is the author of this particular challenge to the innumeracy and economic illiteracy of the political class. “Washington,” he states, “is run by people who think that there’s a 1% difference between 2% growth and 3%

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Students of Society — Looking forward to our visit with Viviana Zelizer

By Pete Boettke

October 11, 2019

|Peter Boettke| On October 17th at GMU, the renowned sociologist Viviana Zelizer will be delivering the 2019 Ostrom Lecture. It has been 10 years since Elinor won the Nobel Prize. And we are thrilled that Professor Zelizer has agreed

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Happy 100th Birthday to James M. Buchanan

By Pete Boettke

October 3, 2019

|Peter Boettke| I am currently at Middle Tennessee State University celebrating James M. Buchanan’s 100th birthday. Buchanan graduated from MTSU with a triple major in English, Mathematics, and Social Science, all while working on a farm to help pay

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Rise and Fall of Monopoly in US History — Murray Rothbard Lectures from 1986

By Pete Boettke

September 30, 2019

|Peter Boettke| This will be old news to many of you, but when I was a graduate student Dave Prychitko, Steve Horwitz, and Deb Walker attended a series of lectures by Murray Rothbard in the history of economic thought. Rothbard

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Should Economists Study Maximizing Utility or Acts of Choice?

By Pete Boettke

September 24, 2019

|Peter Boettke| In James Buchanan’s classic essay “What Should Economists Do?” he argues famously that economics properly practiced is not a science of choice, but a science of exchange relations and the institutions within which exchanges take place. But he

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Two Elementary Ideas for Basic Economic Reasoning

By Pete Boettke

September 10, 2019

|Peter Boettke| This term I am teaching my HIstory of Price Theory course, a course I enjoy teaching tremendously. But two lessons emerge from both the classical economist and the early neoclassical economists that I think would ensure clear thinking.

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