Scholarship and the Free Society (July 23-29)

|Peter Boettke|

I will be giving 3 talks at the IHS Summer Seminar --- Scholarship and the Free Society --- at the end of July.  I have never given these talks before at IHS.  The titles are: (1) Economics Before and After Keynes; (2) Modern Political Economy; and (3) From Big State and Small Society to Small State and Big Society.

I am also not assigning any of my own writings, but here are the background readings for the lectures.

1. Economics Before and After Keynes

Milton Friedman, "The Role of Monetary Policy," American Economic Review, 58, no. 1 (March 1968): 1-17.

F. A. Hayek, "The Pretense of Knowledge," The Swedish Journal of Economics, 77, no. 4 (December 1975): 433-442.

Robert Lucas and Thomas Sargent, "After Keynesian Macroeconomics," Quarterly Review (The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) 1979.

The Economist: Debate --- Keynesian Principles (March 2009); Brad DeLong and Luigi Zingales.

Paul Krugman, "Mr Keynes and the Moderns," mimeo (June 2011).

 

2. Modern Political Economy

F. A. Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society," American Economic Review, 35, no. 4 (September 1945): 519-530.

F. A. Hayek, "Competition as a Discovery Procedure," (1968) translated and published in Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 5, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 9-23.

James Buchanan, "The Constitution of Economic Policy," American Economic Review, 77, no. 3 (June 1987): 243-250.

Ronald Coase, "The Institutional Structure of Production," American Economic Review, 82, no. 4 (September 1992): 713-719.

Douglass North, "Economic Performance Through Time," American Economic Review, 84, no. 3 (June 1994): 359-368.

Vernon Smith, "Constructivist and Ecological Rationality," American Economic Review, 93, no. 3 (June 2003): 465-508.

Elinor Ostrom, "Beyond Markets and States," American Economic Review, 100, no. 3 (June 2010): 641-672.

 

3. From Big State and Small Society to Small State and Big Society

Richard Cornuelle, Healing America (New York: Putnam, 1983).

David Beito, "Mutual Aid for Social Welfare," Critical Review, 4, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 709-736.

Benjamin Powell and Edward Stringham, "Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of Anarchy," Public Choice, 140, nos. 3-4 (September 2009): 503-538.

The Economist -- Taming Leviathan: A Special Report on the Future of the State (March 19, 2011).

 

We will have a much more constructive conversation at the seminar if those attending the Scholarship and the Free Society seminar would do this background reading prior to my talks. 

 

Comments

[Justin Rietz]

Any chance your session will be webcast or video taped? I wanted to go to the summer seminar, but given that my wife and I have a newborn at home, leaving for a week may have significantly affected my lifespan :-)