|Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world.  He brings rational analysis and careful empirics to questions that are too often mired in emotion and tribalism.  In my humble opinion, it is precisely because Clemens is so measured in his rational discussion that when he address the morality of these issues his arguments have greater weight. Listen all the way through and to Clemens's summary of the discourse because his analogy of the good things we want from migration being analogous to ..read more

|Peter Boettke| I somehow missed this when first posted.  But this is very much worth reading, as is most everything Tim discusses either here or at the JEP ..read more

|Peter Boettke| Obviously should have posted this much sooner.  I am playing catch-up.   Given the events as they have unfolded since, and still unfolding, Alex's words are more important than ever.  Listen to what he has to say, and most importantly READ the book.   ..read more

|Peter Boettke| As we get ready for the fall 2022 semester I am preparing to teach PhD courses in the Austrian Theory of the Market Process I and Economic Sociology and Political Economy I.  A common link between these courses is the question of human sociability.  Many years ago, when I taught the Austrian course I assigned John Searle's book Rationality into Action, in addition to Mises and Hayek. Here is Searle discussing the logical structure of human civilization.   What do you think? Bob Subrick and I also dealt with Searle's work in our paper "From the Philosophy of ..read more

|Peter Boettke| Deirdre McCloskey has a new paper circulating which works through a theme she has been stressing a lot lately.  As a social philosophy that begins with the recognition that we are one another’s dignified equals, liberalism demands that we treat each other as adults, not as children.  Yes, we are fallible creatures, but also capable and responsible individuals.  In her latest working paper she reminded me of this great quote from Adam Smith. Read Smith in the context of Biden’s Build Back Better and the Great Reset; or Elizabeth Warren and the indictment of cor ..read more

|Peter Boettke| Last week my second of 2 podcasts with Rosolino Candela on the art and science of economics was released. Listen to part 1 as well.   ..read more

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