Peter J. Boettke (born 3 January, 1960) is an
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economist of the
Austrian SchoolThe Austrian School is a school of economic thought that emphasizes the spontaneous organizing power of the price mechanism or price system...
.
Boettke was born in
Rahway, New JerseyRahway is a city in southern Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the New York metropolitan area, being fifteen miles southwest of Manhattan and five miles west of Staten Island...
to Fred and Elinor Boettke and remained there until he moved to
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
to attend
Thiel CollegeThiel College is a liberal arts, sciences and professional studies college related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and located in Greenville, Pennsylvania, United States. - About Thiel:...
in Greenville and later
Grove City CollegeGrove City College is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, about sixty-five miles north of Pittsburgh. According to the College Bulletin, its stated three-fold mission is to provide an excellent education at an affordable price in a thoroughly Christian environment...
. After completing a
B.A.Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
(1983) in economics at Grove City, Boettke attended
George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax...
where he earned an
M.A.A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic master degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in English, Fine Arts, History, Nursing, Humanities, Geography, Philosophy, Social Sciences or Theology and can be either fully-taught, research-based, or a...
(1987) and a
Ph.D.Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip* PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian organization...
(1989) in economics.
After receiving his doctoral degree, Boettke taught at several schools, including
Oakland UniversityOakland University is a public university located between Rochester, Michigan and Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the only major research university in Oakland County, from which OU derives its name...
,
Manhattan CollegeManhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. Despite the college's name, it is no longer located in Manhattan but in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, roughly 10 miles north of Midtown. Manhattan College offers undergraduate programs in...
, and
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
.
Peter J. Boettke (born 3 January, 1960) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
economist of the
Austrian SchoolThe Austrian School is a school of economic thought that emphasizes the spontaneous organizing power of the price mechanism or price system...
.
Early life and education
Boettke was born in
Rahway, New JerseyRahway is a city in southern Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the New York metropolitan area, being fifteen miles southwest of Manhattan and five miles west of Staten Island...
to Fred and Elinor Boettke and remained there until he moved to
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
to attend
Thiel CollegeThiel College is a liberal arts, sciences and professional studies college related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and located in Greenville, Pennsylvania, United States. - About Thiel:...
in Greenville and later
Grove City CollegeGrove City College is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, about sixty-five miles north of Pittsburgh. According to the College Bulletin, its stated three-fold mission is to provide an excellent education at an affordable price in a thoroughly Christian environment...
. After completing a
B.A.Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
(1983) in economics at Grove City, Boettke attended
George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax...
where he earned an
M.A.A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic master degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in English, Fine Arts, History, Nursing, Humanities, Geography, Philosophy, Social Sciences or Theology and can be either fully-taught, research-based, or a...
(1987) and a
Ph.D.Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip* PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian organization...
(1989) in economics.
Professional history
After receiving his doctoral degree, Boettke taught at several schools, including
Oakland UniversityOakland University is a public university located between Rochester, Michigan and Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the only major research university in Oakland County, from which OU derives its name...
,
Manhattan CollegeManhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. Despite the college's name, it is no longer located in Manhattan but in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, roughly 10 miles north of Midtown. Manhattan College offers undergraduate programs in...
, and
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. In 1998, he returned to George Mason University as a faculty member. In 2004, he was named a Hayek Fellow at the
London School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science, commonly referred to as the London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist constituent college of the University of London in London, England....
. He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Charles University/Georgetown University
American Institute for Political and Economic Studies in Prague and a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at
Stanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States...
. Boettke is Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at
George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax...
where he is a professor of economics. He is also senior research fellow at the
Mercatus CenterThe Mercatus Center at George Mason University in the United States is a non-profit market-oriented research, education, and outreach think tank that works with policy experts, lobbyists, and government officials to connect academic learning and real-world practice.The Mercatus Center was founded...
. Until 2007, Boettke held the position of Director of Graduate Studies for the Ph.D. program in economics at George Mason. He is also editor-in-chief of the
Review of Austrian Economics.
He lives in
Fairfax, VirginiaThis article refers to the independent city of Fairfax, Va. For the surrounding unincorporated area of Fairfax County with a Fairfax postal address, please see Fairfax County, Virginia...
with his wife Rosemary and their two sons, Matthew and Stephen.
As author
- The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years, 1918-1928 (Kluwer, 1990) ISBN 0-7923-9100-4.
- Why Perestroika Failed: The Economics and Politics of Socialism Transformation (Routledge, 1993) ISBN 0-415-08514-4.
- Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy (Routledge, 2001) ISBN 0-415-77109-9.
- The Economic Way of Thinking with Heyne and Prychitko (Prentice Hall, 2005) ISBN 0-13-154369-5.
As editor
- Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics. Edward Elgar, 1994.
- The Collapse of Development Planning. New York University Press, 1994.
- The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics. Elgar, 1994
- The Market Process, 2 volumes. Elgar, 1998
- The Legacy of F. A. Hayek: Politics, Philosophy, Economics, 3 volumes. Edward Elgar, 1999
- Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited, 9 volumes. Routledge, 2000.
- The Economic Role of the State (ed. with Peter Leeson
Peter T. Leeson is BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University and author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, which discusses pirates as pioneers of democracy....
). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, under contract.
- The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises: Theory and History, ed. with Peter Leeson. 2 vols. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2006. ISBN 978-1840644029
External links
- Boettke's faculty bio at George Mason University
George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax...
- Boettke's Austrian Economics blog
- Boettke's bio at the Institute for Humane Studies
The Institute for Humane Studies is a non-profit organization based on classical liberal ideas that assists students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It acts as a talent scout, identifying, developing, and supporting the brightest young students with classical liberal ideas who are...
- Liberty & Power Group Blog
- 2006 Podcast featuring Boettke Boettke discusses Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States...
and the economics of disaster on EconTalkEconTalk is a weekly podcast hosted by professor Russell Roberts at George Mason University. The talk consists of Roberts interviewing a guest—often a professional economist--while discussing topics in economics. Each episode lasts roughly an hour, but it varies widely...
.
- 2007 Podcast featuring Boettke Boettke on the origins and tenets of Austrian economics on EconTalk
EconTalk is a weekly podcast hosted by professor Russell Roberts at George Mason University. The talk consists of Roberts interviewing a guest—often a professional economist--while discussing topics in economics. Each episode lasts roughly an hour, but it varies widely...
.
- 2009 Podcast featuring Boettke Boettke talks about the Austrian perspective on business cycles, monetary policy and the current state of the economy on EconTalk
EconTalk is a weekly podcast hosted by professor Russell Roberts at George Mason University. The talk consists of Roberts interviewing a guest—often a professional economist--while discussing topics in economics. Each episode lasts roughly an hour, but it varies widely...
.
- "A Market Nobel," Wall Street Journal op-ed, October 16, 2007