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By Pete Boettke
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Mises in Investor’s Business Daily
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz A nice piece on Mises in Investor's Business Daily today. A bit too much emphasis on the libertarianism/policy and not enough about how Austrian economics is different. Still,…
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Hawtrey, Cassel and Enough of the Debate Between Keynes and Hayek
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I learned while in graduate school from George Selgin that one should pay attention to what David Glasner has to say.-- even when you disagree. I am not…
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Thinking About the Great Depression
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Many economists explain the Great Depression as a consequence of monetary mismanagement. The more prevalent view focuses on the monetary contraction of the 1930s, a minority view focuses…
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Regime Uncertainty and the Labor Market
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz I just finished reading a student journal where she mused about whether there was a connection between regime uncertainty in the 1930s and the increase in discouraged workers,…
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Rizzo on Hayek vs. Keynes
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Mario Rizzo gets it, why can't Krugman and Warsh and DeLong? However, I think the real issue is this. Hayek’s approach attacks, root-and-branch, the macroeconomic way of thinking.…
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I Know What You Should Do Next Summer
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| This is directed at PhD students and recently minted PhDs who aspire for a career in academia. Summer is a fantastic time to be an academic because you…
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Thank You Alex for the Corrective to Krugman and Warsh
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Alex Tabarrok helps to set the record straight on Hayek and modern macro. Hayek's influence in modern economics is ubiquitous, even if sadly modern economics is not as…
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McCloskey’s Transition to Austrian Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Back in the mid 1990s, I attended Deirdre McCloskey's first talk at the AEA meetings after her coming out publicly as a transgender person. She had not yet…
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Food For Thought For The Weekend — the Future of Capitalism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| At the end of his book Whither Socialism? Joe Stiglitz rhetorically asks whether the 19th century socialist ideals of equality, fraternity and solidarity could be served by the…
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Ideas of Interest From the Web: Values, Voting, and Corruption
By Pete Boettke
~ Frederic Sautet ~ While the US was celebrating Thanksgiving last week, Europeans were reflecting on their values at the International Conference on the Values of Europe. I haven’t had…