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By Pete Boettke
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The Message of Adam Smith and the Paradox of Being Governed
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| James M. Buchanan wrote the following in The Limits of Liberty (1975): Dissatisfaction with the institutional structure, and most notably with the observed performance of government at all…
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Poverty in the Less Developed World Up Close and Personal
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I have often argued that comparative systems analysis will advance only when the birds-eye perspective on "growth" is replaced with a more ground-level analysis of the actual operation…
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John Papola on Keynesian Economics at Forbes
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz John Papola brings together a lot of arguments and evidence about Keynesian economic policy and wraps it all up with a Christmas bow at Forbes today. This will…
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Certain About Regime Uncertainty
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Don Boudreaux at Cato Unbound.
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What’s an $800 Billion Stimulus Worth?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Burton Abrams argues that it is worth negative $475 billion. HT: J. Robert Subrick
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I’ve Said It Before, and I Will Say It Again — Everyone Please Read Buchanan and Wagner To Clarify What Is Going On
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Robert Samuelson, writing in the Washington Post, argues that the Keynesian remedy of government spending might not provide the panacea for our current problems. Why? Well, because we…
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Warren Samuels on George Stigler as a Political Economist
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In his rememberance of Stigler after his passing, Warren Samuels characterized Stigler's economics as follows: George was a neoclassicist, a certain type of neoclassicist; if he was more…
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Could It Be That the Mistake Theory of Government Policy is Mistaken?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In a rather neatly argued paper "Why Have the Socialist Been Winning?", George Stigler contrasts mistake theories of the growth of government with bias theories of the growth…
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How The Grinch Stole the Free Market
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Thanks to the very creative and very smart Sarah Skwire, we have a new holiday classic for the free market crowd. A teaser: All their windows were dark.…
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Humane Studies Fellowships for Students
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Undergraduates and grad students: if you're looking for fellowship money for next year and you're a libertarian/Austrian, the Humane Studies Fellowships are what you want to be applying…