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By Pete Boettke
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Frederic Bastiat in Rome
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| I am presently in Rome, and besides my visits to the main sights, I also saw the burial place of Frederic Bastiat.
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Papers on the ‘Good’ Economy
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Columbia University's Center on Capitalism and Society recently held a conference discussing the philosophical foundations of economics and the 'good' economy. I applied once for a fellowship to…
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Carl Menger Essay Contest Results
By Pete Boettke
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Carl Menger Essay Contest for undergraduate students. Jeremy Horpedahl, Emily Skarbek, and Diana…
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My New Cato Briefing Paper on Hoover
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz The Cato Institute has released my Briefing Paper titled "Herbert Hoover: Father of the New Deal." I try to cover all the major evidence for Hoover's role as…
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MIses, Equilibrium and the Problem of Misplaced Concreteness
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In his 1922 book Socialism, Mises argued that in the stationary state of equilibrium there would be no problem of economic calculation. This theme is repeated again in…
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Some More Actual Data on the Slow Recovery
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Over at The Independent Institute's blog, Angel Martin has a nice post with some useful graphs that nicely complement this post of mine and provides some evidence for…
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Zero Sum Plunder Gives Way to Positive Sum Trade
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Steven Pinker on violence vanishing in human history. He makes a very Misesian and Hayekian point about Ricardo's Law of Association, social cooperation, civilization and enlightenment.
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Steve Davies on the Decline of Classical Liberalism
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Steve Davies of IHS and IEA gives a lecture on the decline of classical liberalism. What do you take away as the main lesson to be learned from…
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Twisting When We Should Be Shifting
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Without directly addressing the slides that Tyler linked to, I want to make a quick comment about the Fed's new Operation Twist. The idea is to twist long…
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A Credit Theory of the Great Recession and The Long Slow Recovery (or Absence of One)
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Tyler Cowen posted this set of slides with data analysis of why the current weak recovery from the recession like the depth and severity of depression of the…