Peter Boettke Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Peter Boettke

Introduce yourself with 7 books. 1. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 2. L Mises, Human Action. 3. FA Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order. 4. FA Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty. 5. James Buchanan, What Should Economists Do?

Peter Boettke

A prized archive item - Henry Hazlitt's detailed comments on Mises's ms of Human Action. After reading 1452 ms, Hazlitt concludes: “Notwithstanding everything said in the course of these notes, this is a GREAT book, and it has been a privilege and eduction for me to work on it.”

Peter Boettke

@psyglyphik @JaycobYes @Austro_Punk @PerBylund @BobMurphyEcon Also, at a theoretical level there are books like Wagner’s Mind Society and Human Action or Rizzo and Whitman’s Escaping Paternalism that move the argument in new and novel directions. Also there has been explosion of work on self governance (eg, Leeson and Stringham) as well as… https://t.co/rR5M21oG4o

Peter Boettke

Before in Search of Monsters, and Manufacturing Militarism, and Tyranny Comes Home, and Doing Bad By Doing Good there was After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy - Christopher J. Coyne https://t.co/cv8GXVhX7a

Peter Boettke

@D_Kuehn @worst_account @davidtbeito @PhilWMagness An under-appreciated intellectual history is Bernard Yack’s The Longing for Total Revolution, which examines Rousseau, Marx and Nietzsche as anti-enlightenment thinkers.

Peter Boettke

Two of my favorite pics of Lin Ostrom from my personal collection -- her showing Jim Buchanan her copy of The Calculus of Consent while explaining how foundational, and me explaining at the APSA meetings how her and Vincent's idea for the Workshop so influenced us. https://t.co/dSUjaTsDez

Peter Boettke

Bruce Caldwell delivering talk at 2022HES meetings “Hayek and Me”. Scott Scheall gave an outstanding intro to also honor Bruce as HES Distinguished Fellow. Read Caldwell! https://t.co/egTMiIemob

Peter Boettke

Given the recent Jacobin article on Marx, folks should sit down and read Prychitko’s _Marxism and Workers Self Management: The Essential Tension (1991). Our teacher Lavoie had a concentrated field of study in Marxian economics, and Dave and I followed that same path from… https://t.co/0jGPbredMf

Peter Boettke

@Econ_4_Everyone That is precisely the message we need to be communicating… econ is a tool for the curious. See Paul Heyne’s The Economic Way of Thinking for a principles book that presents teaching economics in this manner.

Peter Boettke

Sebastian Edwards, The Chile Project (Princeton, 2023) tells story rather than the preferred narrative. In the Index, no mention of Buchanan, only abstract and limited discussion of Hayek, but detailed discussion of Friedman and especially Harberger. @PhilWMagness