The Wall Street Journal has a nice, if too short, bio piece on Peter Boettke.
Peter J. Boettke, shuffling around in a maroon velour track suit or faux-leather rubber shoes he calls “dress Crocs,” hardly seems like the type to lead a revolution.
But the 50-year-old professor of economics at George Mason University in Virginia is emerging as the intellectual standard-bearer for the Austrian school of economics that opposes government intervention in markets and decries federal spending to prop up demand during times of crisis. Mr. Boettke, whose latest research explores people’s ability to self-regulate, also is minting a new generation of disciples who are spreading the Austrian approach throughout academia, where it had long been left for dead.
I like the guy, I think his reconciliation of Weber with the Austrian economists in that article “Post-Classical Political Economy” is ground-breaking stuff.
If he could reconcile Keynes, taking the whole paradigm a bit further than Lachmann, that would be even better.
Taylor
28 Aug 10 at 1:59 pm
Put Pete Boettke’s blog on your favorites,
http://www.coordinationproblem.org/
It is a shared site and there is some great pub conversation in the comments, especially when the guys from Auburn drop in.
They gave Catallaxy a big rap when they came on line and it was one of the first sites on their blogroll.
Rafe
29 Aug 10 at 8:21 am
Put this one on your favorites as well, Peter Klein et al http://organizationsandmarkets.com/
Rafe
29 Aug 10 at 8:23 am