Peter Boettke, Ph.D.

Peter J. Boettke is associate professor of economics and deputy director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. He a member of the Board of Scholars of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, serves as editor of the Review of Austrian Economics (Kluwer) and is the author of The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism (1990), Why Perestroika Failed (1993), and Calculation and Coordination (2001). He is the editor of The Collapse of Development Planning (1994), The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics (1994), The Legacy of F .A. Hayek: Politics, Philosophy and Economics (3 volumes, 2000), and Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Revisited (9 volumes, 2000). He is the coeditor (with David Prychitko) of The Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics (1994), and Market Process Theories (2 volumes, 1998).

Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, Dr. Boettke was associate professor of economics and finance at Manhattan College (1997–98); senior research fellow, Austrian Economics Program at New York University (1997–98); assistant professor at New York University (1990–97); and assistant professor of economics at Oakland University (1988–90). in addition, he was a national fellow at the Hoover institution at Stanford University during the 1992/93 academic year and visiting scholar at the Hoover institution in July 1995. He has been a visiting professor at the Georgetown University/Charles University institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague and at the Central European University in Prague. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck institute for Research into Economic Systems in Jena, Germany (January 1998) and at the institute for international Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (January 1993). Dr. Boettke was the recipient of the 1995 Golden Dozen Award in Recognition of Excellence in Teaching by the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and his B.A. in economics from Grove City College.

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