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By Pete Boettke
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Viennese Kaleidics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Last Sunday at the annual SDAE dinner, Richard Wagner gave his presidental address entitled "Viennese Kaleidics". The paper, which can be found here, is simply fantastic. It continues…
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Ideas of Interest From the Web
By Pete Boettke
~ Frederic Sautet ~ Should those who smoke pay more for rising health costs? (NYT); John Mackey on why more economic freedom is needed (WSJ); Message to European politicians: currency…
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Recognizing Leonard Liggio
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Leonard Liggio will be honored this coming Sunday by the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE). Leonard Liggio in his various roles at the Volker Fund,…
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Ignorance and the Financial Crisis
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus's Engineering the Financial Crisis combines careful historical scholarship with a sophisticated theoretical understanding of the structural ignorance that plagues human affairs. Politics represents…
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Symposium on Chamlee-Wright’sThe Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz The brand new issue of Studies in Emergent Order is a symposium on Emily Chamlee-Wright's terrific book The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a…
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Roger Kerr (1945-2011)
By Pete Boettke
~ Frederic Sautet ~ Roger L. Kerr (CNZM), who passed away on October 28, was one of my intellectual mentors. If institutional entrepreneurs exist, Roger was definitely one of them.…
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Understanding Labor Market Woes
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I am fond of stressing that simple or basic economics is not simplistic. In fact, basic economics applied consistently and persistently may be the most sophisticated tool of…
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In Praise of “Tweakers”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The always insightful Malcolm Gladwell reviews Steve Jobs and argues that the real genius of Jobs is not necessarily creative invention, but persistent and consistent tweaking. In one…
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Four on Four Full Court in NYC — Team Keynes versus Team Hayek
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Tuesday November 8, an Oxford style debate featuring Ned Phelps, Larry White, etc. and Jamie Galbraith, John Cassidy, etc. will take place in NYU. Go Team Hayek.
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Dentists Need Not Apply
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Roger Backhouse and Brad Bateman argue in the NYT that if economists want to be relevant again, they have to be willing to tackle the vexing questions that…