 | Invitation to Political Economy: Berger and the Comedic Drama of Political, Economic, and Social Life
October 19, 2009 Working Papers Peter Boettke |
| This working paper compares and contrasts two books that are intended as invitations to their respective disciplines: Berger‘s Invitation to Sociology and Thomas Mayer‘s Invitation to Economics (2009) and then sees what is common to both invitations concerning the subject matter to which understanding is hoped for.
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 | Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development
October 12, 2009 Books Paul Dragos Aligica,
Peter Boettke |
| The Bloomington School, has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory movement. Its ascendancy is considered to be the result of a unique and extremely successful combination of interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and hard-nosed empiricism. This book demonstrates that the well-known interdisciplinary and empirical agenda of Bloomington research program is the result of a less-known but very bold proposition: an attempt to revitalize and extend into the new millennium a traditional mode of analysis illustrated by authors like Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Madison and Tocqueville.
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| Two-Tiered Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
September 1, 2009 Journal Articles Peter Boettke,
Peter Leeson |
| This paper argues that there are two tiers of entrepreneurship important for economic development. One is concerned with investments in productive technologies that improve productivity and better service consumer needs. The other is concerned with the creation of protective technologies that secure citizens’ private property rights vis-à-vis one another.
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| 'Human Action': The Treatise in Economics
September 1, 2009 Journal Articles Peter Boettke |
| Peter Boettke reminisces on the influence Human Action had on his scholarly career and research agenda.
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 | Local Knowledge: Caring Communities: The Role of Nonprofits in Rebuilding the Gulf Coast
August 25, 2009 Research Papers/Studies Daniel Rothschild,
Emily Chamlee-Wright,
Jennifer Zambone,
Jerry Brito,
Lenore Ealy,
Peter Boettke,
Roxanne Alvarez,
Veronique de Rugy,
Virgil Storr |
| This issue of Local Knowledge focuses on the role of nonprofits and social entrepreneurs in rebuilding the Gulf Coast. In this issue you can read research articles that explain what social entrepreneurship is; that discuss how social entrepreneurs and nonprofits play a critical role in the response to and recovery after disasters; and that detail where and when nonprofits have played key parts in rebuilding.
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 | An Entrepreneurial Theory of Social and Cultural Change
August 17, 2009 Books Christopher Coyne,
Peter Boettke |
| This chapter contends that the entrepreneur is the agent of social and cultural change. The authors consider the entrepreneur in three settings: market, non-market and political. Their purpose is to understand how entrepreneurs create anew or shift existing focal points and how they make these changes salient.
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| Private Solutions to Public Disasters: Self-Reliance and Social Resilience
July 20, 2009 Working Papers Daniel J. Smith,
Peter Boettke |
| Despite having their plans frustrated through the regulations and uncertainty created by government action, humankind has still demonstrated a remarkable resilience following a natural or manmade disaster. We argue that this is due to the civilizing and coordinating roles played by civil society. For-profit companies, charities and churches play a vital role in the recovery process. These organizations have proven to be the first, and most well equipped responders to disasters, jump starting the recovery process.
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| What Happened to 'Efficient Markets'?
June 19, 2009 Working Papers Peter Boettke |
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| The Ordinary Economics of an Extraordinary Crisis
June 19, 2009 Working Papers Peter Boettke,
William Luther |
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| Best Case, Worst Case, and the Golden Mean in Political Economy: An Introduction to a Symposium on Tim Besley's 'Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government.'
June 15, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne,
Peter Boettke |
| This issue of the Review of Austian Economics assembles a group of leading public choice scholars to respond to Besley’s challenging book. The responses all reflect a different slice of the argument on why the selection mechanism in politics might not work to produce the motivational and competence characteristics desired in politicians to get “good government.” |
