Bob Murphy

The Trial Is Over

I was listening to Vernon McGee and he said something interesting, which I will paraphrase: Contrary to the opinion of many non-believers, the gospel’s message is NOT: “You are about to go on trial.” Rather, the gospel’s message is, “You are already convicted and in prison, waiting for your execution, and you are offered a […]

The Race Between Tyranny and Liberty

I’m not sure if I already posted this? Anyway it was from last summer for an Independent Institute event.

Before We Go Now

The Contra Cruise departs this Sunday, and I probably won’t be able to blog for a good 10 days. (Some of you will have to troll Scott Sumner in my absence. Don’t let him get away with winning via definitional fiat.) Here are some links: ==> Rob Bradley explains the corner into which James Hansen […]

More Praise for Choice, Part 3 of 3

For a different project (details forthcoming), I had to type up the blurbs that praise my book on Mises, namely Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action. I suspect that some of you are thinking, “I’m sure it’s a fine book, but I feel no reason to order it.” Well, that would be a serious mistake. […]

More Praise for Choice, Part 2 of 3

For a different project (details forthcoming), I had to type up the blurbs that praise my book on Mises, namely Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action. I suspect that some of you are thinking, “I’m sure it’s a fine book, but I feel no reason to order it.” Well, that would be a serious mistake. […]

More Free Market Economists Who Are Pro-Choice Part 1 of 3

For a different project (details forthcoming), I had to type up the blurbs that praise my book on Mises, namely Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action. I suspect that some of you are thinking, “I’m sure it’s a fine book, but I feel no reason to order it.” Well, that would be a serious mistake. […]

Trolling Update

Scott has playfully pushed back against my nomination of myself as Best Troll of an Economics Blog 2016; you can read that and the comments if you are really committed to doing nothing productive for the next 15 minutes. After that, I encourage you to consider just one more example of my trolling, on an EconLog […]

My Thoughts On Trump’s Tax Return

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know that this issue has absorbed a large portion of my sanity since Sunday. Hopefully this post will get it out of my system. An excerpt: If you still feel like Trump is cheating, realize you too can take advantage of this “vast benefit.” I’ll […]