The Struggle for a Better World
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The Struggle for a Better World
| Author | Peter J. Boettke |
|---|---|
| Published | 2021 |
| Pages | 340 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Two decades of Boettke’s lectures and papers arguing that political economy is a moral science — worth doing because it tells us which institutions let ordinary people cooperate and flourish — in the mainline tradition from Smith through Mises, Hayek, Buchanan and Ostrom. |
The Struggle for a Better World
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, March 2026, in the Capitalism, Morality, and Culture section, as the case that markets are defensible on moral grounds rather than merely efficient ones, read next to Weber. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Economics — the discipline the book argues about.
- Institutions — what it says economics is really for studying.
- Capitalism — the system it defends on moral grounds.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the list this came from.
What links here
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