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By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
Going to Have to Face It You’re Addicted to Debt
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| New York Times reports this morning that the Chinese government has released an official statement that says the US government is addicted to debt. In particular, the "gigantic…
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Who are the Dogmatists and Ideologues Now?
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Let's look at the record of the last three years: TARP = Failed.QE1 = Failed.QE2 = Failed.Stimulus = Failed.Non-existent budget cuts/debt ceiling increase = Failed, at least in…
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An Open Challenge to Rachel Maddow
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz On her MSNBC show last night, Rachel Maddow repeated the historical canard that Herbert Hoover's inaction was responsible for the worsening of the Great Depression. She repeated the…
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Some Updates in the World of Austrian Economics
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Coordination Problem bloggers Steve, Pete, Chris and I will be lecturing this upcoming week at the Advanced Seminar in Austrian Economics at the Foundation for Economic Education. The…
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It’s a Feature, Not a Bug: Revolving Doors and Capture in the Oil Industry
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz I'm always happy to use my favorite phrase ("It's a feature, not a bug") to describe the problems of corporate-state entanglements, and this AP report, which details the…
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What Can We Learn From Non-Human Societies For Understanding Social Cooperation Within Human Society?
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| On a sunny day in the spring of 1986 (I think but could have been 1985), as I was entering the Center for the Study of Public Choice…
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Mises and Hayek Cited in Norwegian Terrorist’s Manifesto
By Pete Boettke
Steven Horwitz Thanks to a tip from a libertarian friend, I did a quick search of Anders Behring Breivik's 1500 page manifesto (which you can find here) and he does…
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Two Review Essays that May Be of Interest
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| On Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Virtues. On James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed.
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Stop those juggling tricks
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| Scott Beaulier and I have a new policy paper out with the Cato Institute, dealing with the deficit, debt and debasement cycle in public policy. Our main message…
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“The only business that tells you to reduce consumption of its product is a government regulated utility.”
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke| New York City, as the rest of the East Coast is experiencing a scorching heat wave (it is 104 on my back deck here in Fairfax). Mario Rizzo…