Peter J. Boettke
Peter J. Boettke (born January 3, 1960 in Rahway , New Jersey ) is an American economist from the Austrian School and past president of the Mont Pèlerin Society .
Life
Boettke was born in Rahway in 1960. He attended Thiel College in Greenville and Grove City College . He graduated from Grove City with a BA in Economics in 1983 . In 1987 he graduated from George Mason University with an MA , where he also received his doctorate in economics in 1989.
Boettke then taught at Oakland University , Manhattan College and New York University, until he finally returned to George Mason University in 1998 as a professor. In 2004 he was appointed a Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics . He was also at Charles University in Prague and as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace in Stanford . Boettke is Associate Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University and senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center . He is editor-in-chief of the Review of Austrian Economics magazine .
Boettke is married and has two sons.
Publications
As an author
- Living Economics. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow , Independent Institution , Washington, DC , USA 2012, ISBN 978-1-59813-072-0 .
- The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years, 1918-1928 (Kluwer, 1990) ISBN 0-7923-9100-4 .
- Why Perestroika Failed: The Economics and Politics of Socialism Transformation (Routledge, 1993) ISBN 0-415-08514-4 .
- Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy (Routledge, 2001) ISBN 0-415-77109-9 .
- The Economic Way of Thinking with Heyne and Prychitko (Prentice Hall, 2005) ISBN 0-13-154369-5 .
- Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (Routledge, 2009) ISBN 978-0-415-77820-6 .
As editor
- Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics . Edward Elgar, 1994.
- The Collapse of Development Planning . New York University Press, 1994.
- The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics . Elgar, 1994
- The Market Process , 2 volumes. Elgar, 1998
- The Legacy of FA Hayek: Politics, Philosophy, Economics , 3 volumes. Edward Elgar, 1999
- Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited , 9 volumes. Routledge, 2000.
- The Economic Role of the State (ed. With Peter Leeson ). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, under contract.
- The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises: Theory and History , ed. With Peter Leeson. 2 vols. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2006. ISBN 978-1840644029
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Boettke, Peter J. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rahway |