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Fall 2010

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 26, Number 1

Categories: Education | Fall 2010

From Promiscuity to Commitment: Peter Boettke's Approach to Mentoring "Mainline" Economists

Emily C. Skarbek, San Jose State University

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise26(1),2010,143-152FromPromiscuitytoCommitment:PeterBoettke’sApproachtoMentoring“Mainline”EconomistsEmilyC.SkarbekSanJoseStateUniversityAbstractPeterJ.Boettke’sprescriptionforgraduatestudentsinvolvesreadingwidelyandwritingpapersthatilluminatetheworldthrougheconomictheory.Thisessaydiscusseshispedagogicalapproachinrelationshiptocontemporaryscholarshipinmainstreameconomics.Boettkeadvancesareturntoabroadlydefined“mainline”ofeconomictheory,advocatesAustrianideasuniquelysituatedtocontributeinthisvein,andexecutesthisapproachinthemethodshepracticeswithgraduatestudents.JELCodes:B25,B31Keywords:PeterJ.Boettke;Mainline;Austrianeconomics;PedagogyBeintellectuallypromiscuousearlyinyourgraduateeducation:readwidelyandwriteonavarietyoftopics.Thencarefullychooseonetopicandfallinlovewithit.–ToparaphrasePeterJ.BoettkeI.IntroductionTheadvicePeterJ.Boettkegivestograduatestudentswhoareinterestedintheseriousstudyofideasinpoliticaleconomyistoreadwidelyandtowritepapersthatilluminatetheworldwiththelensofeconomictheory.Todothis,Boettkeadvocatesaprogramofstudythatincludesreadingtraditional“Austrian”tomessuchasLudwigvonMises’HumanAction,F.A.Hayek’sConstitutionofLiberty,andMurrayRothbard’sMan,EconomyandState–bookspracticallyunheardofinmainstreameconomicsdepartments.Alongsidethose800+pagetreatises,BoettkerecommendsAdamSmith’sTheoryofMoralSentimentsandselectedwritingsofDavidHumeandAlexdeToqueville–classicsconsideredbymanytobeeitheroutdatedoroutsidethescopeofeconomicsproper.Boettke’sprescriptionalsoincludessuchselectionsasthenewestNBERworkingpapers,articles143

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Title	From Promiscuity to Commitment: Peter Boettke's Approach to Mentoring "Mainline" Economists
Authors/Creators:	Emily C. Skarbek, San Jose State University
Year:	2010
Volume:	26
Number:	1
Pages:	143 - 152
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	Mentorship, Writing, Economic theory, Pedagogy, Austrian Economics, Institutional economics, Microeconomics, Academia

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Skarbek, Emily C. / 2010. "From Promiscuity to Commitment: Peter Boettke's Approach to Mentoring "Mainline" Economists." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 26(1): 143-152.