Posts Tagged ‘Peter Leeson’
Liberty Reads for January 7, 2010
The Safest Way What Price a Planned Economy? Murray N. Rothbard Passed Away 15 Years Ago Today The Naked Truth About Airport Security Scanners Peter Leeson Becomes North American Editor of Public Choice
Book Review: The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
By Justin Williams What begins as a simple story of Pirates soon turns into an unique journey through Economics and History. Peter Leeson, who is an Economist, uses methodological individualism to analyze the behavior of Pirates as simple profit seekers. This allows Leeson to give a different view of the Pirates then most of us are used to. He [...]
Pete Leeson Has a Favor to Ask…
From Pete: Check out my latest op-ed, "In Praise of Pirates," at NPR here. Please leave a comment over at NPR and hit "recommend" if you like the piece. If there's enough interest on NPR's website, I have a chance at being on their program, "All Things Considered" next week.
The Benefits of Failure by Peter T. Leeson
From the Washington Times In a market economy, business deaths are like death itself - an unfortunate but inevitable fact of life. However, recent government bailouts have tried to stop the inevitable by intervening in the market, at least temporarily saving failed firms from the economic grim reaper. Before putting the next failed business [...]
Is there such thing as efficient Anarchy?
By Justin Williams When most people think of anarchy, they think about chaos but the classic definition simply means "without government." For example, we do not have a world government. There is not an overarching powerful sovereign force that can do anything to us that they want in the world. Dr. Peter Leeson has an article publish in the [...]
Dr. Pete Leeson Discussing the Recession
Dr. Leeson blogs at The Austrian Economists. You can buy Dr. Leeson's new book, The Invisible Hook, here.
