Peter Boettke

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Peter Boettke
Born (1960-01-03) January 3, 1960 (age 64)
Austrian School
Alma materGeorge Mason University (Ph.D., 1989)[1]
InfluencesLudwig von Mises,[2] Friedrich Hayek, Hans Sennholz[3] Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, Frédéric Bastiat, Israel Kirzner, Murray Rothbard, Kenneth E. Boulding, Richard Cornuelle, James M. Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Vernon L. Smith, Elinor Ostrom
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Peter Joseph Boettke (

Austrian School. He is currently a professor of economics and philosophy at George Mason University; the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, vice president for research, and director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center
at GMU.

Early life and education

Boettke was born and raised in Rahway, New Jersey, to Fred and Elinor Boettke. In high school and college, he played for the school basketball and tennis teams.[citation needed]

He attended

Ph.D. (1989) in economics. His thesis was The political economy of Soviet socialism, 1918–1928 under the supervision of Don Lavoie.[1]

Career

After receiving his doctoral degree, Boettke taught at several institutions, including

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He has also been made an affiliated member of the Philosophy Department at George Mason University and, in 2012, he was awarded a doctorate honoris causa in social sciences from Universidad Francisco Marroquín.[6]

In addition to his academic positions, he is vice president for research at Mercatus Center and director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Until 2007, Boettke held the position of director of graduate studies for the Ph.D. program in economics at George Mason. He is the editor of George Mason University's Review of Austrian Economics[7] and as vice president of the Mont Pelerin Society for the 2018–2020 term.[8] He was the society's president from 2016 to 2018.[9]

Analytical anarchism

Analytical anarchism is the name given by Boettke to the positive political economy of anarchism, or anarchism from the economic point of view, in the libertarian tradition of Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty (1973) and David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom (1973). Boettke claims that analytical anarchism has developed out of this tradition and is currently being pursued by economists such as Peter Leeson, Edward Stringham and Christopher Coyne.[10]

Publications

Books

Books as editor

Personal life

Boettke resides in Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife and two sons.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "Peter Boettke". GMU.edu. George Mason University.
  2. ^ Boettke, Peter. "'Human Action': The Treatise in Economics", The Freeman 59, no. 7 (September 2009): 16–18.
  3. ^ a b "Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes: Professor Leads an Austrian Revival". The Wall Street Journal. August 27, 2010.
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  5. ^ "Peter Boettke – Biographical Information". econfaculty.gmu.edu.
  6. ^ "Honorary Doctoral Degree Awarded at May 2012 Commencement - New Media New Media" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  7. ^ "Review of Austrian Economics". www.gmu.edu.
  8. ^ "Mont Pelerin Society Directory". Mont Pelerin Society. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  9. ^ "Mont Pelerin Society Elects Peter Boettke as 2016–2018 President". Mercatus Center. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  10. ^ "Analytical Anarchism research program". Archived from the original on July 29, 2013.

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