Peter Boettke Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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University Professor of Economics & Philosophy at George Mason University
Individualism and Economic Order
F. A. HayekPeter BoettkeIntroduce 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?
Paperback, 1996
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig Von MisesPeter BoettkeA 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.”
Paperback, 2012
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Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy
Richard WagnerPeter 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
Paperback, 2013
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Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror
Christopher J. CoynePeter BoettkeBefore 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
Paperback, 2021
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The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche
Bernard YackPeter 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.
Paperback, 2022
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The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
James M. BuchananPeter BoettkeTwo 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
Paperback, 2004
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Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950
Bruce CaldwellPeter BoettkeBruce 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
Hardcover, 2022
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Marxism and Workers' Self-Management: The Essential Tension
David L. PrychitkoPeter BoettkeGiven 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
Hardcover, 1991
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The Economic Way of Thinking
Paul HeynePeter 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.
Paperback, 2013
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
Sebastian EdwardsPeter BoettkeSebastian 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
Hardcover, 2023
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