Peter Boettke
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| Born | January 3, 1960 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | George Mason University (Ph.D.), 1989[1] |
| Opposed | Paul Krugman[2] |
| Influences | Ludwig von Mises,[3] Friedrich Hayek, Hans Sennholz[4] |
Peter J. Boettke (born January 3, 1960) is an American economist of the Austrian School. He is currently university professor of economics at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, vice president for research, and research director for the Global Prosperity Initiative at the Mercatus Center, and the deputy director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy.[5]
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[edit] Early life and education
Boettke was born in Rahway, New Jersey to Fred and Elinor Boettke and remained there until he moved to Pennsylvania to attend Thiel College in Greenville and later Grove City College. It was at Grove City College that he became interested in economics, when he took a course taught by Hans Sennholz[4] and there that he developed his religious convictions.[6] After completing a B.A. (1983) in economics at Grove City, Boettke attended George Mason University where he earned an M.A. (1987) and a Ph.D. (1989) in economics.[1]
[edit] Professional history
After receiving his doctoral degree, Boettke taught at several schools, including Oakland University, Manhattan College, and New York University.[7] In 1998, he returned to George Mason University as a faculty member. In 2004, he was named a Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics. He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Charles University/Georgetown University American Institute for Political and Economic Studies in Prague and a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Boettke is Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University where he is a professor of economics. He is also senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Until 2007, Boettke held the position of Director of Graduate Studies for the Ph.D. program in economics at George Mason. He is also editor-in-chief of the Review of Austrian Economics [1].
He lives in Fairfax, Virginia with his wife Rosemary and their two sons, Matthew and Stephen.[citation needed]
[edit] Books
[edit] As author
- The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years, 1918-1928 (Kluwer, 1990) ISBN 0-7923-9100-4.
- Why Perestroika Failed: The Economics and Politics of Socialism Transformation (Routledge, 1993) ISBN 0-415-08514-4.
- Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy (Routledge, 2001) ISBN 0-415-77109-9.
- The Economic Way of Thinking with Heyne and Prychitko (Prentice Hall, 2005) ISBN 0-13-154369-5.
- Aligica, Paul Dragos; Boettke, Peter (2009). Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-77820-6.
[edit] As editor
- Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics. Edward Elgar, 1994.
- The Collapse of Development Planning. New York University Press, 1994.
- The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics. Elgar, 1994
- The Market Process, 2 volumes. Elgar, 1998
- The Legacy of F. A. Hayek: Politics, Philosophy, Economics, 3 volumes. Edward Elgar, 1999
- Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited, 9 volumes. Routledge, 2000.
- The Economic Role of the State (ed. with Peter Leeson). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, under contract.
- The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises: Theory and History, ed. with Peter Leeson. 2 vols. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2006. ISBN 978-1840644029
- Handbook On Contemporary Austrian Economics, Edward Elgar, 2010.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Boettke's faculty bio at George Mason University
- ^ You Cannot Be Serious! Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize
- ^ Boettke, Peter. "'Human Action': The Treatise in Economics." The Freeman 59, no. 7 (September 2009): 16-18.
- ^ a b "Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes: Professor Leads an Austrian Revival," Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2010,
- ^ Boettke's bio at Mercatus:"Peter J. Boettke - Mercatus". http://mercatus.org/peter-j-boettke.
- ^ "Religion and Economics". http://www.gordon.edu/ace/pdf/SymposiumF05F&E46.pdf. "Spiritually--that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savoir [sic] and that one must commit to a personal relationship with God and to strive to live a Christ-centered life. Historically--the role of the Christian Church in the development of Western Civilization. Intellectually--the philosophical and epistemological importance of Christian presuppositionalism."
- ^ Peter J. Boettke - Biographical Information
[edit] External links
- Boettke's Coordination Problem blog (with Christopher Coyne, Steve Horwitz, Peter Leeson, Dave Prychitko, and Frederic Sautet)
- Boettke's bio at the Institute for Humane Studies
- Liberty & Power Group Blog
- 2006 Podcast featuring Boettke Boettke discusses Hurricane Katrina and the economics of disaster on EconTalk.
- 2007 Podcast featuring Boettke Boettke on the origins and tenets of Austrian economics on EconTalk.
- 2009 Podcast featuring Boettke Boettke talks about the Austrian perspective on business cycles, monetary policy and the current state of the economy on EconTalk.
- "A Market Nobel," Wall Street Journal op-ed, October 16, 2007
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- Living people
- American economists
- Austrian School economists
- Anarcho-capitalists
- George Mason University alumni
- George Mason University faculty
- Grove City College alumni
- Manhattan College faculty
- New York University faculty
- Oakland University faculty
- People from Union County, New Jersey
- Stanford University staff
- Thiel College alumni
- 1960 births
- High school basketball coaches in the United States
