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Fall 2010
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Volume 26, Number 1

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:TheMovementBuildingofPeterBoettkeEdwardPeterStringhamFayettevilleStateUniversityAbstractMurrayRothbard(1977)maintainedthatlibertariansocialchangerequiresalibertariancadrebothcommittedtoprincipleandwillingtoengageotherstohelpadvancethecause.Thisarticleappliesthistheorytoacademiaandhighlightsthecontributionofaprofessorwhobestexemplifieswhatcanbeclassifiedasthecentristormovement-buildingapproachtolibertarianacademicchange,PeterBoettke.ThisarticlefocusesonPeterBoettkeseffortstoincreasethenumberofacademicsadvancinglibertyandthenhighlightssomeofhiscontributions.JELCodes:B31,B25,A13Keywords:Socialchange;Academicstrategy;InvestmentineducationI.IntroductionHowdoesonebringfreesocietyabout?Rothbard(1978)wrote,Libertarianshavegivenconsiderablethoughttorefiningtheirbasicprinciplesandtheirvisionofalibertariansociety.Buttheyhavegivenvirtuallynothoughttoavitallyimportantquestion,thatofstrategy:Nowthatweknowthenatureofoursocialgoal,howintheworlddowegetthere?”Ahighpercentageofacademicsbelievethatoneofthemostimportantfactorsforsocialchangeiseducation,1yethowlibertarianeducationisbestadvancedisdebated.Somepeoplearequicktoabandontheirprinciplestoadvanceinacademia,whereasotherssticktotheirprinciplesbutgiveuponacademia.ThecommonTheauthorthanksChristopherCoyne,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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