Peter J. Boettke

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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

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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