|Peter Boettke| A lot of folks hold, what I believe, to be erroneous views about the Austrian School of Economics, and the status of economics as a science. My own position is that economics has the same ontological status as
|Peter Boettke| I reread Mises’s classic work Socialism this summer. Fun historical fact — this was the first book of Mises’s that I read, followed by Theory of Money and Credit, before I read Human Action. The book had a
|Peter Boettke| Hayek famously penned an essay “Why I am Not a Conservative”. I have often argued that folks need to read that essay in conjunction with his “Errors of Constructivism” to get a good sense of his position on
|Peter Boettke| I am currently at the Prague Airport heading home after giving a series of 10 lectures, a talk to ESFL chapter in Prague, and listening to MA thesis proposals. What Josef Sima has built here is a wonderful
|Peter Boettke| In May the MPS Regional meeting was hosted in Texas, and I gave one of the lunch talks on the theme of “Lessons for MPS from ‘The Pretense of Knowledge’.” It was a tour through the ideas of
|Peter Boettke| John Reed, author of Ten Days That Shock the World, was an American journalist who worked on behalf of the socialist cause, and he was buried at the Kremlin Wall. Warren Beatty wrote, directed, starred and produced the
|Peter Boettke| I am back in Prague teaching at the CEVRO Institute PPE program. This will be 3rd year teaching in this program. But I have been coming to Prague for almost 30 years. I came here first at the
|Peter Boettke| Listen to Tyler Cowen at the 50 min mark and following discuss his own personal situation at GMU and why our PhD program is so AWESOME. The entire episode is self-recommending with Glenn Loury and Tyler Cowen, so
|Peter Boettke| I just finished watching Bob and Ben do an interview about their new book that is released today. Socialism Sucks is timely and entertaining tour through the ruins left behind by an ideology that has both been poorly