Peter Boettke on ?Austrian Economics, Institutional Economics, and ...

Joining us for this week?s webinar is the prominent scholar of Austrian Economics, Peter Boettke of George Mason University! Prof. Boettke will be discussing ?Austrian Economics, Institutional Economics, and the Science of Liberty??don?t miss this?phenomenal?opportunity and register today!

Wednesday, September 21, 8PM-9PM Eastern/Standard Time

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Peter Boettke?s talk will cover the role and importance of the paradigms of Austrian Economics and Institutional Analysis to gaining an understanding of the mechanisms that underpin a society characterized by sustained economic prosperity and cooperation among free and responsible individuals.

Peter Boettke is the Deputy Director of the?James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, a Senior Research Fellow at the?Mercatus Center, and a professor in the economics department at George Mason University. Boettke was born and raised in New Jersey. He received his BA in economics from?Grove City College and his PhD in economics from George Mason University. Before joining the faculty at George Mason University in 1998, he held faculty positions at Oakland University, Manhattan College and New York University. In addition, Boettke was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University during the 1992-1993 academic year. He has been a visiting professor or scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems in Jena, Germany, the Stockholm School of Economics, Central European University in Prague and Charles University in Prague.

Boettke is the author of several books on the history, collapse and transition from socialism in the former Soviet Union ??The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years, 1918-1928 (Kluwer, 1990);?Why Perestroika Failed: The Economics and Politics of Socialism Transformation (Routledge, 1993); and?Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy(Routledge, 2001). He is also now the co-author, along with David Prychitko, of the classic principles of economics texts of Paul Heyne?s?The Economic Way of Thinking (10th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002). Boettke has also edited the following volumes,?Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited, 9 volumes (Routledge, 2000);?The Legacy of F. A. Hayek: Politics, Philosophy, Economics, 3 volumes (Elgar, 1999),?The Market Process, 2 volumes (Elgar, 1998),?Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics (Elgar, 1994),?The Collapse of Development Planning (New York University Press, 1994), and?The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics (Elgar, 1994).

For more information about the SFL Webinar Series, please visit our?webpage here.

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