Bob Murphy

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The Adults in the Room Can’t Stand That Schoolyard Bully Trump

I believe this is how Socrates dealt with a boor, as well: (I didn’t cut and paste. The reason I made this post is that the above happened to be contiguous in my Twitter feed.) I’m being dead serious. I couldn’t stand Trump in the beginning of this thing. But seeing people call him Hitler […]

Callahan vs. Murphy: Only One Will Stand

I am happy to die on this hill: If you take my worldview to the extreme, then people really do have rights and if, for some crazy reason, most Earthlings refused to contribute to a project to stop a killer asteroid, then it would be immoral to take their money against their will. Gene Callahan […]

Another Interesting Facebook Misunderstanding

A while ago I posted about the misunderstanding people had when on Facebook I said something like, “Has anyone tried sending ISIS the Carpenters’ Christmas album? I’m not saying it would work, but we should at least try.” I meant that Karen’s voice was so sweet and lovely that it would calm even the angriest […]

Arguing With People On Twitter Is Stupid

…but every once in a while I have to remind myself why. Seriously, this guy is a force of nature. Unfortunately not all of our exchange is captured in this link (I think maybe I spared Miles Kimball at some point, and so Twitter didn’t put those tweets in the same thread), but let me […]

Efficient Market Bubbles and Why Is Scott Sumner a Libertarian?

I am really swamped with work stuff so I can’t do this justice. But I couldn’t ignore this recent Scott Sumner post at EconLog, in which he asks, “If you believe in bubbles, then why are you a libertarian?” Here’s his argument: I don’t believe in bubbles. In addition, I’m a libertarian. I see those […]

Appeal to Scientism in the Climate Change Policy Debate

My latest at FEE. I think I have some funny lines in here that you haven’t seen before; this was not my usual piece. An example: The “statistical analysis” did not establish that the critics’ claims were false. It is undeniably true that the official NASA GISS records showed, for example, that the average annual […]

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That Voodoo, That Krug Do

The punchline from my latest blog post at The Beacon: Are these really the most outrageous examples of “voodoo economics” to come out of a keyboard in the last few years? Does a projection of 5.3 percent average real GDP growth really deserve three question marks? After all, Krugman is the one who has argued the […]