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The essays were written over a span of some twenty years or so, most of them in the first decade of the present century or soon thereafter. Although the greatest teachers of economics have always stressed this, economics as it is currently taught often deemphasizes the study of realworld problems and dwells too much on nonessentials. He discusses the hayekian principles laid out in his new book f. Boettke argues for embracing the tradition of smith and hayek in both teaching and research, arguing that economics took a wrong turn when it began to look more like a branch of applied mathematics.
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