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Volume 26, Number 1

Categories: Education | Fall 2010

Toward a Libertarian Strategy for Academic Change: The Movement Building of Peter Boettke

Edward Peter Stringham , Fayetteville State University

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise26(1),2010,1-12TowardaLibertarianStrategyforAcademicChange:TheMovementBuildingofPeterBoettkeEdwardPeterStringham�FayettevilleStateUniversityAbstractMurrayRothbard(1977)maintainedthatlibertariansocialchangerequiresalibertariancadrebothcommittedtoprincipleandwillingtoengageotherstohelpadvancethecause.Thisarticleappliesthistheorytoacademiaandhighlightsthecontributionofaprofessorwhobestexemplifieswhatcanbeclassifiedasthecentristormovement-buildingapproachtolibertarianacademicchange,PeterBoettke.ThisarticlefocusesonPeterBoettke’seffortstoincreasethenumberofacademicsadvancinglibertyandthenhighlightssomeofhiscontributions.JELCodes:B31,B25,A13Keywords:Socialchange;Academicstrategy;InvestmentineducationI.IntroductionHowdoesonebringfreesocietyabout?Rothbard(1978)wrote,“Libertarianshavegivenconsiderablethoughttorefiningtheirbasicprinciplesandtheirvisionofalibertariansociety.Buttheyhavegivenvirtuallynothoughttoavitallyimportantquestion,thatofstrategy:Nowthatweknowthenatureofoursocialgoal,howintheworlddowegetthere?”Ahighpercentageofacademicsbelievethatoneofthemostimportantfactorsforsocialchangeiseducation,1yethowlibertarianeducationisbestadvancedisdebated.Somepeoplearequicktoabandontheirprinciplestoadvanceinacademia,whereasotherssticktotheirprinciplesbutgiveuponacademia.Thecommon�TheauthorthanksChristopherCoyne,PeterLeeson,andBenjaminPowellforhelpfulcommentsandsuggestions.1Forexample,Mises(1998a,p.885)writes,“Thebodyofeconomicknowledgeisanessentialelementinthestructureofhumancivilization;itisthefoundationuponwhichmodernindustrialismandallthemoral,intellectual,technological,andtherapeuticalachievementsofthelastcenturieshavebeenbuilt.”SeealsoRothbard(1975),Hummel(2001),CaplanandStringham(2005),andStringhamandHummel(forthcoming).1

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Title	Toward a Libertarian Strategy for Academic Change: The Movement Building of Peter Boettke
Authors/Creators:	Edward Peter Stringham , Fayetteville State University
Year:	2010
Volume:	26
Number:	1
Pages:	1 - 12
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	Education, Social change , Academic strategy, Investment in education, Liberalism, Freedom, Academia, Economists' role, Boettke

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Stringham, Edward Peter / 2010. "Toward a Libertarian Strategy for Academic Change: The Movement Building of Peter Boettke." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 26(1): 1-12.