All Posts Tagged With: "George Mason University"

Human Action: The Treatise in Economics

“Next week we will discuss the master’s work.” So stated Dr. Hans Sennholz to close his graduate seminar during my junior year at Grove City College. I had owned a copy of Human Action since my freshman year, but the book was too daunting for me to really study it. I preferred to read Henry [...]

19Aug2009 | Peter J. Boettke | 1 comment | Continued

Pete Boettke: GMU Faculty Member of the Year

Pete Leeson reports over at The Austrian Economists (a great blog!) that Pete Boettke, FEE lecturer, Freeman contributor, and an old friend of mine, has been named Faculty Member of the Year by the George Mason University Alumni Association.The Mason Gazette says: “If there were an MVP award in academia, Mason economist and alumnus Peter [...]

21May2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Hayek, Coase, and Buchanan on the Market Process

Donald Boudreaux is chairman of the economics department at George Mason University. Compared to most other economists, my George Mason University colleagues and I put more emphasis on books than articles. Tyler Cowen, one of my most accomplished colleagues, often describes GMU Economics as a “book department.” This affection for books doesn’t mean that we ignore [...]

1Jun2007 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 2 comments | Continued

Where Are the Best Schools in Austrian Economics?

Here in the United States most colleges and universities have a goodly number of “neoclassical” economists with a free-market bent. (There are a number of “free market” colleges and universities in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, a topic I shall pursue in a future column.) The American schools include the University of Virginia; the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Florida State University; and the University of Chicago.

1Jul2001 | Mark Skousen | 35 comments | Continued

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