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By Pete Boettke
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The Legacy of Smith and Hayek: Free The Market
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| The European will be running a debate on whether the free market ideology has outlived its purposefulness. I was invited to contribute and my piece was posted today…
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The Economics of the Stimulus in Comic Strip Form
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz I think the final caption is funny, but I think "A History of Stimulus Spending" would have been better.
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Sorry Jonathan Chait, but Labor is NOT Fungible; or Best Blog Comment I Read Today
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz The Mercatus studies that Tyler wrote about this morning have received quite a bit of harsh criticism, especially from the left, including this Jonathan Chait piece at TNR.…
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Best Paragraph I’ve Read So Far Today
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| "Although human spiritual and material achievements have been rooted for time immemorial in human freedom, the current, traditional approach to economic development has tended to pay only lip…
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Did the stimulus create jobs?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| No! Tyler Cowen links to two new papers from the Mercatus Center that explore why. Note the methodology used in the papers and in particular the multiple methodology…
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The Libertarians Were There and You Weren’t
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz This piece has been getting a lot of play today in which Michael Lind accuses both Mises and Hayek of being friends of autocracy and fascism (you can…
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What You See Depends Upon Where You Stand
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz My colleague Petrik Runst and I had a lovely chat this afternoon at a local bistro to discuss a paper project that we're working on. Over the course…
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Ideas, and Frameworks, and Policies! Oh, my!
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| For years I have been trying to teach students -- from Econ 101 to PhD students -- that there is a simple linear relationship in the real world…
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Mises Wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, well sort of …
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| In his obituary of Bertil Ohlin, Paul Samuelson plays the game of "what if" -- in this case, "what if the Nobel Prize was established in 1900, then…
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William Breit
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| While I was in Chicago, I heard the sad news that William Breit had passed away. Bill was simply a wonderful man and thoughtful scholar of economics.