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By Pete Boettke
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Rajan on Why the Inflation Solution is Not a Solution at All
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Very brilliant economists, such as Ken Rogoff, have argued that the way out of current situation is to have a decade of 4-6% inflation. Personally, I have been…
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Have Some Fun During Obama’s Speech Tonight
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Here's an idea for Obama's speech tonight: Every time he uses the phrase "create jobs" or some variant of it, we all email/text/tweet "Give 'em spoons!" to the…
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Climbing Hills Should Not Just Be the Job of Anthropologists
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Says one history professor in reacting to James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed. The reactions, positive as well as negative, to Scott's work are discussed in…
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2011 Don Lavoie Graduate Student Essay Competition
By Pete Boettke
Chris The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce that submissions for the 2011 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition are now being accepted. Submissions…
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Ten Years Ago — September 11, 2001
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| For the past few weeks, the remembrances of 9/11 have been airing almost 24/7 on TV, e.g., the George Bush interview. On I-95 between DC and NYC, various…
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Gary Becker on Government Failure and the Great Recession
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In the WSJ the other day, Gary Becker lays out the case for the depth and severity of the Great Recession to be laid at the door of…
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Smothering the Consequences of Natural Disasters
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Valerie Bauerlein of the Wall Street Journal (who did excellent work on Walmart's role in the response to Katrina) has a terrific piece on how Waffle House has…
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Dan Ariely’s Contribution to the “debate” at the European
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Dan Ariely argues that we are not rational, but instead fallible creatures in need of external restraints, such as regulations. And that is why the old free market…
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The Most Important Economics Debate of the Interwar Period
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Normally Austrians talk about the two big debates of the interwar period - the socialist calculation debate and the Hayek-Keynes debate. And those were big, particularly if "big"…
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The Stimulus Projects Were Also not Skill-ready
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz My new favorite commenter dhanson wrote in the thread on Chait, my emphasis: And if we're talking about a large stimulus project like HSR or wind farms or…