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Donald J. Boudreaux

Donald J. Boudreaux is professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of the books The Essential Hayek, Globalization, and Hypocrites and Half-Wits. He writes a blog called Cafe Hayek.

Articles

The Protectionist Roots of Antitrust

07/20/2005 Review of Austrian Economics Donald J. Boudreaux

From The Review of Austrian Economics Vol. 26, No. 2, 1993.

“Puffery” in Advertising

09/01/1995 Free Market Donald J. Boudreaux

Want to please a lawyer? Find a long-established legal rule that minimizes disputes. Then propose that this rule be radically changed. Such thrill seeking seems to be the motive behind a recent proposal to make advertisers liable for "puffery."

Government for the Birds

02/01/1996 Free Market Donald J. Boudreaux

The pattern is all-too-familiar: Congress and its bureaus of executive-branch henchmen arrogantly mock the Constitution, only to be applauded by the courts. Nowhere is this pattern more evident than the recent case of Leslie Salt Co. vs. the United States. Here are the facts.

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Media

Don Boudreaux on Austrians, Public Choice, and Debating Free Trade

02/10/2020 Robert P. Murphy Donald J. Boudreaux

Bob Murphy Interviews George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux.

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