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• Celebrating James Buchanan's Contributions to Spontaneous Order Studies

  posted to The Austrian Economists on Thu 9th Sep 10

  |Peter Boettke|Today marks the beginning of an exciting 3 days of celebrating and critically examining the contributions of James M. Buchanan to the field of economics, political economy and in particular to spontaneous order studies.The gentleman behind FSSO

• Has Paul Romer Been Reading Pete Leeson?

  posted to The Austrian Economists on Wed 8th Sep 10

  |Peter Boettke|Paul Romer recently stated: "Many of us take it for granted that government officials will obey the law. In the US, news that the police department in New Orleans committed and covered up crimes like rape and murder reminds us that this

• Economic Miracles Come in Similar Packages --- Free Market Reforms Work!

  posted to The Austrian Economists on Wed 8th Sep 10

  |Peter Boettke|Larry White has a great op-ed in today's WSJ addressing the policy steps that produced the German economic miracle after WWII.

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• New Thinking for a New Decade

  posted to The Austrian Economists on Fri 1st Jan 10

  As of January 1, 2010, we are changing our name to "Coordination Problem".  This name change is symbolic as well as substantive.  The term "Austrian economics" has become as much a hindrance to the advancement of thought as a

• The Economic Condition of Poor Americans (and the rest of us) Continues to Improve

  posted to The Austrian Economists on Fri 27th Nov 09

  Steven HorwitzAs many of you know, this is a set of data I've followed closely over the years (as has Don Boudreaux among others).  The Census Bureau just released the 2005 data on what households have (HT: Ariel Goldring) and it has allowed me to update

• Lin Ostrom --- Political Economist --- Wins 2009 Nobel

  posted to The Austrian Economists on Mon 12th Oct 09

  |Peter Boettke| On Saturday I was in beautiful Sante Fe, NM and was having a discussion with my good friend David Henderson. We were discussing the upcoming Nobel Prize in Economics. David tends to get the nod from the WSJ to write up the summary piece on the

Latest posts linking here

• Just Like Starting Over

  posted to The Economic Way of Thinking on Tue 7th Sep 10

  Little Lilla is now three months old, and she's been sleeping the nights through like a pro since August 8th.  (This book, which some reviewers say is advocating torture, was the one that changed our lives and got Lilla sleeping.) 

• Poverty kills

  posted to Anti-Dismal on Tue 7th Sep 10

  In more ways than one. Frederic Sautet writes over at the Coordination Problem blog: Clearly the impact of earthquakes is mostly an economic issue. What happened in Kobe many years ago or in Christchurch last weekend doesnt compare with what happened in Haiti.

• How to do economics

  posted to Taking Hayek Seriously on Sat 4th Sep 10

  The economists who dominate graduate school education have a lot they could learn about how to provide competent economic explanations from the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in economics.