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Pete Boettke on Austrian Economics
By Pete Boettke
Chris Coyne Pete Boettke was recently interviewed by The Browser on Austrian Economics. You can read the interview here.
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Liberty Fund Conference on “Markets, Socialism and Liberty”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Tomorrow I head off to a conference organized by co-blogger Steve Horwitz on "Markets, Socialism and Liberty." The readings include heavy doses of Mises, Hayek, and Lavoie. Should…
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What Is It That We Can Learn From the Exchange of Ideas Among Economists?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Brad DeLong provides a lengthy entry with many block quotes from representatives of the contemporary Chicago School, and claims in the end that the position argued as represented…
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What Remains of the Consensus in Macroeconomics?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I am currently browsing Daron Acemoglu's Introduction to Modern Economic Growth (Princeton, 2009), which appears to me to be a comprehensive and clearly presented overview of the material.…
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A Course Worth Taking
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Mark Koyama is teaching what promises to be an outstanding seminar this spring semester on social science as analytical history. The Analytical Narrative approach is the natural empirical…
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Central Banking and Knowledge Problems
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Anthony Evans has an excellent piece on why central bank policy leads to frustration even under the best of circumstances. In the process he discusses the work of…
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What is the Fed Doing?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Gerald O'Driscoll raises some very interesting points about the Fed engaging in a covert bailout of European banks. O'Driscoll's concerns don't rely on any conspiracy theory about the…
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The Calculation Debate in the Media Down Under
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz A nice article on the socialist calculation debate by Australian Chris Berg. I would quibble with a few details, especially the "theoretically" vs. "practically" impossible splitting of Mises…
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Best Sentence Read Today on Why Ordinary Economics Is Necessary Even in Extraordinary Times
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson he writes: "Emotional economics have given birth to theories that calm examination cannot justify."
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Costs, Benefits, and the Analysis of Predation in Political Economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| At a recent discussion of Ed Stringham's Anarchy, State and Public Choice with graduate students led by Nick Snow, the question was put to Pete Leeson and myself…