Peter J. Boettke

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 numerous books, including The Struggle for a Better World (Mercatus Center 2021), F.A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Independent Institute 2012), and Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (with Paul Dragos Aligica, Routledge 2009). Boettke 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.