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Living Economics
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Co-sponsored by
Mercatus Center, George Mason University
The Independent Institute

Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014

Time: noon – 1:30 p.m. (Luncheon)

Where: The National Economists Club
Chinatown Garden Restaurant 618 H St NW
Washington, DC 20001

Admission: National Economists Club Members and Affiliates - $16.00
Non-members - $25.00
Students (Full Time with ID at door) - $16.00

Book: Living Economics book is on sale at the event - $20.00 (26% off)

Featuring
Peter J. Boettke
Peter Boettke is a University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at GMU and the author of Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Economics affects all walks of life—whether in the marketplace, voting booth, family or community—and how its principles can shape the fate of nations according to Dr. Peter J. Boettke. He will speak about the power of economics from his book, Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. This event is co-sponsored by The Independent Institute and Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
Living Economics
Living Economics
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

The passion of the teacher is often the inspiration for a student. Living Economics illuminates how economics affects all walks of life, whether in the marketplace, voting booth, church, family, or any human activity. Boettke believes that economics is not merely a game to be played by clever professionals, but a discipline that touches on the most pressing practical issues at any historical juncture. The wealth and poverty of nations are at stake; the length and quality of life turns on the economic conditions individuals find themselves living with.

So teaching and learning economics are high stakes ventures. Along the way he introduces us to major thinkers: from the Late Scholastics in 16th- and 17th-century Spain to Smith, Say, and Bastiat of the Classical School, to Austrian School scholars (Menger, Mises, Hayek, Kirzner, and Rothbard) on to New Institutional economists (Alchian, Coase, Demsetz, North, Ostrom and Williamson) and Public Choice theorists (Buchanan, Tullock, and others). This engaging and reasoned book is a must-read for economists, students, and everyone else who wishes to better understand economics.





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