Exploring Economics from Marx to Mises with Professor Peter J. Boettke

Episode 10: Peter J. Boettke On today’s show John has a conversation with George Mason University Professor of Economics and Philosophy Peter J. Boettke. In George Mason’s Mercatus Center, Boettke holds the positions of Vice President of Advanced Study and Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. The conversation tracks Peter’s impressive career in economics as the two dig into the economic ideas and figures that he’s studied along the way. John and Peter also take a dive into the great debate between capitalism and socialism through the perspectives of Karl Marx and Ludwig Von Mises. More from our guest: Personal Website https://bit.ly/32g47Nv Twitter https://bit.ly/33AWMIB Mercatus Center Bio https://bit.ly/2ON7qHZ Wikipedia https://bit.ly/2oH7Kxj Google Scholar Citations http://bit.ly/31fx5eT Amazon Author Page https://amzn.to/35JIIOS References from this episode: Free to Choose by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman https://amzn.to/31cknxv Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels https://amzn.to/2OObTKk Rivalry and Central Planning by Don Lavoie, forwards by Peter J. Boettke & Virgil Henry https://amzn.to/2MgQesT From Marx to Mises by David Ramsay Steele https://amzn.to/32cATyS Karl Marx and the Close of His System by Rudolf Hilferding & Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk https://amzn.to/32gLHfv Socialism by Ludwig Von Mises https://amzn.to/2MgQjwH Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker https://amzn.to/2nHJDOq Factfulness by Hans Rosling https://amzn.to/2ON7SGb Power and Knowledge by Michel Foucault https://amzn.to/31hvPYE The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek https://amzn.to/31c1knb Stalin: Paradoxes of Power by Stephen Kotkin https://amzn.to/2OKxFPj The March of History: Mises vs. Marx https://youtu.be/QwqnRYPcrl0

Added 12 May 2026