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Is the Debt-Deflation Theory of Depressions as Insightful as Has Been Suggested?
|Peter Boettke| Steve Horwitz is in town tonight and will guest lecture in my PhD course on Austrian Economics. We will be discussing the financial crisis and the relevance of Austrian economics for understanding our contemporary policy dilemmas. Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok makes the case for Irving Fisher as an under-rated economic thinker,... »
An Invitation From President and Mrs. Bush
Dear Alex Brinsmead, As a past supporter of President Bush, I would like to invite you to learn more about the George W. Bush Presidential Center. The center is committed to advancing the four principles — Freedom, Opportunity, Responsibility, and Compassion — that guided his presidency and remain the focus of his and Mrs. Bush’s ongoing... »
What Does the Price System Communicate?
| Peter Boettke | At the Berger conference a question arose about the communicative properties of the price system. Dan Klein, both in his comments on Virgil Storr's paper, and in his own paper, asked the participants to unpack the communication metaphor in the analysis in price theory and the market system. David Prychitko raised a... »
Left-Libertarians on Rothbardian Abandonment
In Chartier’s Conscience of an Anarchist I mention an interview law professor and libertarian Gary Chartier gave. In the interview, the left-libertarian host “Little Alex,” at around 59 minutes, characterizes the Rothbardian view of abandonment as follows: if you own a pencil, and drop it, you own it forever; so if someone else... »
Left-Libertarians on Rothbardian Abandonment
In Chartier’s Conscience of an Anarchist I mention an interview law professor and libertarian Gary Chartier gave. In the interview, the left-libertarian host “Little Alex,” at around 59 minutes, characterizes the Rothbardian view of abandonment as follows: if you own a pencil, and drop it, you own it forever; so if someone else... »
