The Peter B. Bos Award
The annual Peter B. Bos Award recognizes a Menger Academy student who exemplifies:
- The creation of outstanding, original contribution to economic theory
- The advancement of intellectual independence, courage, and integrity
- The development of post-statist thought and institutions
The Peter B. Bos Award includes:
- An exclusive pen from the Menger Institute
- A signed copy of The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States by Peter B. Bos
The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States by Peter B. Bos
The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States argues that the nation-state is not a moral necessity or historical endpoint, but a temporary coordination technology shaped by incentives, power, and myth. Peter B. Bos traces how centralized political authority systematically fails to align knowledge, incentives, and decisions, and why increasingly mobile individuals, capital, and information are rendering nation-states obsolete. The book challenges readers to think beyond politics toward voluntary, post-statist forms of social order grounded in realism and institutional evolution.
Geigenomics Podcast - The Road to Freedom & The Myth of the State
Matthew Geiger hosts Peter Bos to discuss his revolutionary book The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States, where he describes an alternative to the politcal democratic state—social order based upon contract and money ballot.