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By Their Fruits

For anyone doubting the goodness of the God of the Old Testament… look at the outcome when a Man perfectly follows the instructions put forth by the God of Moses.

Bob Murphy Show ep. 82: Why “Intelligent Design” Is a Scientific Theory

Based on the feedback I’ve gotten, I should’ve titled this one differently. I’m actually just refuting one particular argument that ID is not a scientific theory. But that of course isn’t the same as me arguing that it is a scientific theory. In any event, here it is.

Contra Krugman: Live from Vienna!

I can’t remember if I posted about this on the blog, but here was our live recording of Contra Krugman ep. 211, in the central bank of Vienna!

Wealth vs. Income Taxes

Ever since wealth taxes have entered the political discussion, I’ve been trying to put my finger on why they are even more destructive than income taxes. Some early attempts had people arguing that–if we assume assets are earning 3%–then a 3% wealth tax operates just like a 103% income tax. However, that wasn’t quite right, […]

God as Director

Instead of worrying about how you’re going to screw up next, interpret your life as if you’re watching an intricate movie, where you don’t know what’s coming. Someone says, “What do you think’s going to happen? Is it going to be bad?” And you answer, “I don’t know. But I’m familiar with the previous work […]

Bob Murphy Show Twin Spin

In ep. 80 I reproduced my interview with Patrick from the “Cave to the Cross” apologetics podcast (video below). Among other things, we tackled the question, “Would the laws of economics be true in the Garden of Eden?” Then in ep. 81 I have Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on to talk more about the economics of […]

Stephan Kinsella Debates Bob Murphy on Argumentation Ethics

For real, this was awesome. I spent years thinking Stephan didn’t understand what Gene Callahan and I did in our critique of Hoppe’s famous argument for libertarian property rights, and (I’m guessing) Stephan spent years thinking we were morons. Well, we talked at least a half hour before we even found a spot where we […]

Murphy + von Pepe > 2 Nobel Laureates

In my latest piece for Mises.org, I push back on two of the recent Nobel laureates when they claimed in the NYT that financial incentives don’t matter as much as economists think. Since they had invoked salary caps in sports as an example, I acquired the assistance of the intrepid von Pepe to give me […]