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Peter Boettke

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Peter Boettke

@PeterBoettke

Distinguished University Professor of Economics & Philosophy at George Mason University

Fairfax, VA

Joined April 2012

Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Oct 15, 2025
I would like every aspiring academic economists to listen to what Prof Mokyr says here and internalize it. This is what our job is about, this is what our _science_ is about. I have learned a great deal from Prof. Mokyr's books and articles, but I have learned a lot from his
Northwestern
@NorthwesternU
Oct 14, 2025
What it's all about. 💜🥹 Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the @NobelPrize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.
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Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
May 31, 2025
An academic life … books I have published, books I have edited, dissertations that I advised on that became books, subsequent books by former PhD students, and books in series that I edit. First entry in collection 1990, last entry 2024. More to come, so many more to come.
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
May 8, 2025
Happy Birthday Professor Hayek. Born on May 8th, 1899. He was a witness of the 20th century, but a theorist for the 21st. We still have much to learn from this revolutionary thinker in the social sciences and humanities.
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Oct 20, 2025
Let's be very clear about this, the backlash coming due to the illiberalism of this administration will be pronounced and will not find a sane liberalism but an insane illiberalism from the opposite side. These folks share a desire to see the state as a tool for _them_ to wield
Nick Gillespie
@nickgillespie
Oct 20, 2025
'What I worry about is that we have outsourced, in the conservative movement, our economic and our domestic policy thinking to the libertarians.' @JDVance 2019. Watch @jasonahart supercut of Vance awfulness and read the transcripts. Link in next tweet.
Jason Hart
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Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
May 8, 2024
Happy Birthday Professor Hayek (May 8, 1899)
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Apr 26, 2024
Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty and Law Legislation and Liberty all arguing for the essential framework of law, customs and mores. James Buchanan wrote The Calculus of Consent, The Limits of Liberty and The Reason of Rules. @JosephEStiglitz just a few
Joseph E. Stiglitz
@JosephEStiglitz
Apr 25, 2024
No one’s truly free without rules and regulations. Counterintuitive? Think stoplights. Without them, pandemonium and gridlock. With them, I stop so you can drive through, and vice versa. We both have the freedom to move about with fewer traffic jams and accidents. This same idea
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
May 8, 2020
Happy Birthday to Professor Hayek (May 8, 1899-March 23, 1992)
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Mar 11, 2023
When I think economists this is what I am thinking
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Nov 28, 2020
Coming out soon ... spread the news
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Aug 29, 2024
Excited to this monograph in the final stages of the publication process. The main thesis has been presented at seminars at Stanford, NYU, LSE, Chicago and of course GMU. We benefited from 2 outstanding reader reports and editorial team at Cambridge. ⁦@CambUP_Econ⁩
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Oct 4, 2023
Why Israel Kirzner Deserves a Nobel Prize | Peter J. Boettke fee.org/articles/why-i… Here is my wish for 2023 — Kirzner, McCloskey and Mokyr for their contributions to our theoretical understanding and empirical performance of the entrepreneurial economy for economic growth and
Why Israel Kirzner Deserves a Nobel Prize
From fee.org
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Feb 25, 2020
So this is happening!!!
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Apr 3, 2025
Some mornings you just have to return to your roots to maintain your sanity as an economists. Say it with me, and say it loud tariffs are bad policy, they distort production and harm consumers.
Peter Boettke
@PeterBoettke
Sep 29, 2025
September 29, 1881 was Ludwig Mises birthday. Thank you Prof Mises for your contributions to economics, political economy and social philosophy. The intellectual case for true radical liberalism is an important aspect of your legacy, on this birthday we should remember that.