Exploring Economics from Marx to Mises with Professor Peter J. Boettke

On today’s show John has a conversation with George Mason University Professor of Economics and Philosophy Peter J. Boettke. In George Mason’s Mercatus Center,  Boettke holds the positions of Vice President of Advanced Study and Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. The conversation tracks Peter’s impressive career in economics as the two dig into the economic ideas and figures that he’s studied along the way. John and Peter also take a dive into the great debate between capitalism and socialism through the perspectives of Karl Marx and Ludwig Von Mises. More from our guest: Website Twitter Mercatus Center Bio Wikipedia Google Scholar Citations Amazon Author Page References from this episode: Free to Choose by Milton & Rose Friedman Rivalry and Central Planning by Don Lavoie From Marx to Mises by David Ramsay Steele Karl Marx and the Close of His System by Rudolf Hilferding & Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Factfulness by Hans Rosling Power and Knowledge by Michel Foucault