Peter J. Boettke is a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Through an analytical framework strongly influenced by the paradigm of Austrian economics, as well as other intellectual traditions personified by thinkers in the mainline of economic thought—such as Adam Smith, F. A. Hayek, James M. Buchanan and Elinor Ostrom—Boettke has developed a robust political economy research program that expands an understanding of how individuals acting through the extended market order can promote freedom and prosperity for society, and how the institutional arrangements shape, reinforce, or inhibit the individual choices that lead to sustained economic development.
In addition to a variety of journal articles and edited volumes on these and related themes, his recent publications include two monographs with the Fraser Institute: The Road to Freedom: Estonia’s Rise from Soviet Vassal State to One of the Freest Nations on Earth and The Road to Socialism and Back: An Economic History of Poland, 1939–2019 (co-authored with Matthew Mitchell and Konstantin Zhukov). His other books include The Struggle for a Better World (Mercatus, 2021), F. A. Hayek Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Living Economics Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (The Independent Review and Universidad Francisco Marroquin, 2012) among others.
