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Overview

Peter J. Boettke is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a concentrated focus on Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Finance as notable subfields.

The topics addressed in their work include Economic Theory and Institutions, Economic Theory and Policy, Political Economy and Marxism, Economic theories and models, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Global Financial Crisis and Policies, and Economic, financial, and policy analysis.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "The political economy of the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021), published in Southern Economic Journal
  • "The morality of illicit markets: "Greasing the wheels" or "greasing the palm"?" (2023), published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "On the feasibility of technosocialism" (2022), published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Where Chicago meets London: James M. Buchanan, Virginia Political Economy, and cost theory" (2020), published in Public Choice
  • "János Kornai, the Austrians, and the political and economic analysis of socialism" (2020), published in Public Choice

Boettke's frequent coauthors include Rosolino Candela, Alexander William Salter, Daniel J. Smith, Christopher J. Coyne, and Karras J. Lambert.

Prominent publication venues for their work include SSRN Electronic Journal, Public Choice, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Contextual Economics - Schmollers Jahrbuch, and Southern Economic Journal.

Book publications are part of their academic output, including titles published by Cambridge University Press such as "The Socialist Calculation Debate" (2024) and "Money and the Rule of Law" (2021), as well as "Collapse of Development Planning" (2021) published by New York University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Collectivist economic planning

    Friedrich A. von Hayek;Peter J. Boettke

  • Institutional stickiness and the New Development Economics

    Peter Boettke;Christopher Coyne;Peter Leeson

  • Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

    Peter J Boettke

  • Context Matters: Institutions and Entrepreneurship

    Peter J. Boettke;Christopher J. Coyne

  • Why perestroika failed

    Peter J Boettke

  • Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School

    Paul Dragos Aligica;Peter J. Boettke

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT: CAUSE OR CONSEQUENCE?

    Peter J Boettke;Christopher J Coyne

  • Where did economics go wrong? Modern economics as a flight from reality

    Peter J. Boettke

  • The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics

    Peter J. Boettke

  • Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy

    Peter J. Boettke;Peter T. Leeson

  • Information and Knowledge: Austrian Economics in Search of its Uniqueness

    Peter J. Boettke

  • Why perestroika failed : the politics and economics of socialist transformation

    Peter J. Boettke

  • Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development

    Peter T. Leeson;Peter J. Boettke

  • Post-Classical Political Economy Polity, Society and Economy in Weber, Mises and Hayek

    Peter J. Boettke;Virgil Henry Storr

  • The political economy of Soviet socialism : the formative years, 1918-1928

    Peter J. Boettke

  • The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina

    Peter Boettke;Emily Chamlee-Wright;Peter Gordon;Sanford Ikeda

  • Economic Calculation: The Austrian Contribution to Political Economy

    Peter J. Boettke

  • The New Comparative Political Economy

    Peter J. Boettke;Christopher J. Coyne;Peter T. Leeson;Frederic Sautet

  • Methodological individualism, spontaneous order and the research program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

    Peter J. Boettke;Christopher J. Coyne

  • Austrian Economics and Public Choice

    Peter J. Boettke;Edward J. López

  • Book Review: 'Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought', Vol. I, and 'Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought', Vol. I, by Murray N. Rothbard

    Peter J. Boettke

  • Quasimarket failure

    Peter J. Boettke;Christopher J. Coyne;Peter T. Leeson

  • Complexity, Governance and Constitutional Craftsmanship

    Peter J. Boettke;Virgil Henry Storr

  • The Market Process

    Peter Boettke;David L. Prychitko

  • The Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics

    Peter J. Boettke;David L. Prychitko

  • Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective: Political Economy Foundations

    Paul Dragos Aligica;Peter J. Boettke;Vlad Tarko

  • The political economy of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Peter Boettke;Benjamin Powell

  • Why Culture Matters: Economics, Politics and the Imprint of History

    Peter J. Boettke

  • Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

    Christopher J. Coyne;Peter J. Boettke

  • The economic role of the state

    Peter J. Boettke;Peter T. Leeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter T. Leeson
Peter T. Leeson George Mason University
Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon University of Southern California
Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Catherine C. Eckel
Catherine C. Eckel Texas A&M University
Friedrich A. von Hayek
Friedrich A. von Hayek University of Freiburg
Christian Bjørnskov
Christian Bjørnskov Aarhus University

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