Author Profile: Peter Boettke
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Peter Boettke (pboettke@gmu.edu) is the deputy director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and an economics professor at George Mason University. He is the coauthor, with Paul Dragos Aligica, of Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development (2009), a book about the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom.Articles »
The House That Uncle Sam Built
Posted in Document on 1 December 2009
Stats: 1,933 views and 11 Comments By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best…
Posted in Document on 1 December 2009
Stats: 1,933 views and 11 Comments By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best…
Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics
Posted in Articles on 15 October 2009
Stats: 149 views and 1 Comment Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win the prize. Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies.
Posted in Articles on 15 October 2009
Stats: 149 views and 1 Comment Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win the prize. Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies.
