From Promiscuity to Commitment: Peter Boettke's Approach to Mentoring "Mainline" Economists

Peter J. Boettke's prescription for graduate students involves reading widely and writing papers that illuminate the world through economic theory. This essay discusses his pedagogical approach in relationship to contemporary scholarship in mainstream economics. Boettke advances a return to a broadly defined "mainline" of economic theory, advocates Austrian ideas uniquely situated to contribute in this vein, and executes this approach in the methods he practices with graduate students.

Find the article at the Journal of Private Enterprise.