Dr. Israel Kirzner kicked off FEE’s Advanced Austrian Economics seminar with a terrific presentation on the history of Austrian Economics. This is a excellent opportunity to learn from one of Ludwig von Mises’s student’s who carries the torch of the Austrian School of Economics. Dr. Steve Hortwiz, another Austrian School economist, says of Dr. Krizner, [...]
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History of Austrian Economics – Israel Kirzner
Posted in Austrian Economics Also tagged Austrian School of Economics, Foundation for Economic Education, Israel Kirzner, Steve Horwitz 2 Comments
Don’t Let the Fox Guard the Chicken Coop
Posted by Peter Boettke on June 16, 2009 at 01:03 PM Posted on The Austrian Economists When asked to sum up his contributions to public economics, James Buchanan jokingly suggested that “Don’t the the fox guard the chicken coop” might capture his basic point. Among the many brilliant insights in Buchanan’s work, his insistence on [...]
Posted in Economics 101 Also tagged Democracy in Deficit, James Buchanan, Pete Boettke Leave a comment
Rhetoric and Reality and President Obama
Just a quick introductory note to the piece by Peter Boettke, you must keep reading, past the first two points, to get the the meat of Boettke’s brilliant insights to Obama’s rhetoric and reality. If you stop before then you might think Boettke is making an apologetic for Presient Obama. He is not. Posted by [...]
Posted in President Obama Also tagged Mr. Gorbachev, Peter Boettke, President Obama, President Ronald Reagan, Reality, Rhetoric, University of Chicago 2 Comments
Extraordinary Times Requires…Well Ordinary Economics
Post by Dr. Peter Boettke I remained amazed concerning the mass hysteria of my chosen profession in times of adjustment. Why do we even talk of “depression economics” as if the lessons of economic science drastically change? Would it make sense to talk of “depression physics” or “depression biology”? Wouldn’t the teachings of physics and [...]
