Peter Boettke: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon

Published: March 30, 2015, 4 a.m.

Peter Boettke is a university professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T professor for the study of capitalism, and the director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at GMU. Before joining the faculty at George Mason University in 1998, Boettke taught at New York University. In addition, Boettke was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University during the 1992-1993 academic years and the F. A. Hayek Fellow in 2004 and 2006 at the London School of Economics. In this speech, he discusses "The Comparative Political Economy of a Crisis."