Peter J. Boettke

Dr. Peter J. Boettke is Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, as well as the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University. He received his PhD in Economics from George Mason University and specializes in Austrian economics, economic history, institutional analysis, public choice, and social change.

Boettke has published numerous books, including The Historical Path to Liberty and Human Progress (Universidad Francisco Marroquín Press, 2025) coauthored with Rosolino Candela, The Socialist Calculation Debate: Theory, History, and Contemporary Relevance (Cambridge University Press, 2024) coauthored with Rosolino Candela and Tegan Truitt, and The Struggle for a Better World (Mercatus Center, 2021). Boettke is Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics, Series Editor of the New Thinking in Political Economy book series, Co-Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society, and Co-Editor of The Collected Works of Israel M. Kirzner.

He is a former Fulbright Fellow at the University of Economics in Prague, a National Fellow at Stanford University, and Hayek Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. He has held visiting academic positions at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and the Stockholm School of Economics, among other institutions. Before joining the faculty at George Mason University, he taught economics at New York University. 

His work has earned him numerous awards, including a doctorate honoris causa in social sciences from Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala, an honorary doctorate from Alexandru Iona Cuza in Romania, and the Public Choice Society's highest academic honor, the James M. Buchanan Distinguished Fellow Award. 

For further publications by Boettke, visit his website.