Peter J. Boettke
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Director, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and EconomicsVice President for Advanced StudyBB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, Mercatus Center at George Mason UniversityDistinguished University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University
Peter Boettke is Vice President for Advanced Study, 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 specializes in Austrian economics, economic history, institutional analysis, public choice, and social change.
Boettke has authored and coauthored more than 11 books, including his most recent, Living Economics, and is editor of the Review of Austrian Economics, series editor of the New Thinking in Political Economy book series, and coeditor of the Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society.
Boettke 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, Boettke taught economics at New York University.
Boettke’s work has earned him numerous awards, including a doctorate honoris causa in social sciences from Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and an honorary doctorate from Alexandru Iona Cuza in Romania.
Boettke received his PhD in economics from George Mason University.
For a current list of publications, view Peter's personal website.
Latest Work
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Peter Boettke & Federica Carugati on Reframing Modern Political Economy
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Appreciating Israel Kirzner | Cato Daily Podcast
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"Essays on Austrian Economics and Political Economy" Book Panel
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The Legacy of Richard E. Wagner
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The Four Corners of Liberalism with Peter Boettke & Emily Chamlee-Wright, Pt. 2
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The Four Corners of Liberalism with Peter Boettke & Emily Chamlee-Wright, Pt. 1
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Economic calculation and transaction costs: The case of the airline oversales auction system
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On the feasibility of technosocialism
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How the World Became Rich — Book Panel
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A behavioral approach to the rational choice analysis of the limits of state action
Latest Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
Peter Boettke & Federica Carugati on Reframing Modern Political Economy
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Appreciating Israel Kirzner | Cato Daily Podcast
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
"Essays on Austrian Economics and Political Economy" Book Panel
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
The Legacy of Richard E. Wagner
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- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
The Four Corners of Liberalism with Peter Boettke & Emily Chamlee-Wright, Pt. 2
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
The Four Corners of Liberalism with Peter Boettke & Emily Chamlee-Wright, Pt. 1
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Economic calculation and transaction costs: The case of the airline oversales auction system
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
On the feasibility of technosocialism
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
How the World Became Rich — Book Panel
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
A behavioral approach to the rational choice analysis of the limits of state action
Latest Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Book Chapters Book Chapters
Hayek and His Socialist Friends
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János Kornai, the Austrians, and the political and economic analysis of socialism
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Hayek and the Hayekians on the Political Order of a Free People
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Ideas and Interest in the Economic Analysis of Regulation
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Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom
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How Bad Scholarship Destroys Literary and Economic Analysis
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Stigler on the Science of Economics
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Response to a Symposium on Peter J. Boettke's F.A. Hayek Book
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Mises’s Human Action and Its Place in Science and Intellectual Culture
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Property, predation and socialist reality
Latest Work
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Peter Boettke and Daniel Smith Q&A on Money and The Rule of Law
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No Free Lunch — Confronting Economic Fallacies with Peter Boettke & Caleb Fuller
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"Manufacturing Militarism" Book Panel
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Towards an Economics of Natural Equals, Pt. 2 — Peter Boettke, David Levy, & Sandra Peart
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Towards an Economics of Natural Equals, Pt. 1 — Peter Boettke, David Levy, & Sandra Peart
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"Escaping Paternalism" Book Panel
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Peter Boettke & Patrick Newman on Cronyism
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Peter Boettke & Anja Shortland on Lost Art
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Exploring Economic Sociology — Peter Boettke & Richard Wagner
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Exploring Economic Sociology — Peter Boettke & Bobbi Herzberg
Latest Work
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Peter Boettke Talks to the Free Market Institute on "Taming Leviathan"
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Benjamin Powell Interviews Peter Boettke on 'Free to Exchange'
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Russ Roberts Book Panel: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
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40 Years After the Nobel: F. A. Hayek and Political Economy as a Progressive Research Program
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Peter Boettke on "Against 'Triage Economics:' Misadventures in Economic Emergency Rooms"
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Peter Boettke on "The Austrian School of Economics as a Progressive Research Program in Political Economy"
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Peter Leeson Book Panel: Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think
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Peter Boettke and Todd Zywicki Discuss "Bruno Leoni at 101"
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Peter Boettke on "Why Learning Economics is a Virtue" at the LEC
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Benjamin Powell Book Panel: Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy
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