Archive for Peter J. Boettke
Contributing editor Peter Boettke is a professor of economics at George Mason University, the deputy director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. He is also a member of FEE's board of trustees.
Why Perestroika Failed
Peter J. Boettke is an assistant professor of economics at New York University and the author of The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism (Kluwer, 1990) When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, he inherited a political and economic mess. The Novosibirsk report prepared by Soviet sociologist Tatyana Zaslavskaya, published in the West in the [...]
1Mar1992 | Peter J. Boettke | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: To Promote The General Welfare: Market Processes vs. Political Transfers by Richard E. Wagner
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 177 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 • 1989 • 239 pages • $29.95 cloth; $12.95 paper Economic theory is analogous to a pair of corrective eyeglasses. Whereas the world appears unclear and indistinct without a pair of glasses, the correct prescription lenses will clarify and bring our vision [...]
1Oct1991 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Road To A Free Economy by Janos Kornai
W. W. Norton & Company, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 • 1990 • 224 pages • $16.95 cloth The heady events of 1989 in Eastern Europe have given way to the sober reality of the 1990s. The road from serfdom will not be easy. As Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier recently said: “It [...]
1Apr1991 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Market Socialism: A Scrutiny by Anthony de Jasay
London: Institute of Economic Affairs; North American Distributor: Atlas Foundation, 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, VA 22032 • 1990 • 35 pages • $8.00 paper In this brilliant essay, Anthony de Jasay critically examines the proposals for “market” socialism offered by a leading group of British socialist academics. With the failure of “real existing” socialism evident [...]
1Mar1991 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Ideas, Interests & Consequences by Andrew Gamble, et al.
London: Institute of Economic Affairs; North American Distributor: Arias Foundation, 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, VA • 22032 • 1989 • 133 pages • $15.00 paper This collection of essays from a Liberty Fund symposium held at Windsor Castle on June 26-29, 1989, addresses one of the most important theoretical and practical problems of our day. [...]
1Feb1991 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | ContinuedSoviet Admissions: Communism Doesnt Work
Professor Boettke teaches in the Department of Economics at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. There are annoying misprints in history, but the truth will prevail! —Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1937) The civic rehabilitation of Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938) in February 1988 was an event of tremendous significance in Soviet history. The historical resurrection of Bukharin, who in the [...]
1Feb1990 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | Continued-
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