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Bob Murphy’s Lessons for Libertarians

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Bob Murphy Show Twin Spin

In ep 76 I interview Justin Clark on the “Baltic Strategy” for Texas nationhood, and in ep 77 I interview Rob Bradley on his contributions to energy economics, getting his PhD under Rothbard, and why Enron was the first postmodern corporation. Here’s the video too for Rob:

You Didn’t Build That (God Did)

There’s nothing wrong with the logic of libertarian property rights (homesteading etc.). The problem only comes in if you assume empirically at the outset that the Earth was unowned when the first human stumbled upon it. Because if the opening Genesis account were true, for example, then God is obviously the owner of everything. Again, […]

BMS ep 75: Bretigne Shaffer on California’s Mandatory Vaccinations

Oh boy, I’m getting into risque territory with this one. Here is the podcast link (with notes) and here is the video:

Potpourri

==> Peter Klein interviewed in South Africa. ==> I respond to Noah Smith on Friedman’s “plucking model.” ==> At first I thought this was a parody, but AOC actually urged workers to be sure they got paid for an extra hour for Daylight Saving. However, in context, I actually don’t think she said anything dumb. […]

Potpourri

==> My interview with Titus Gebel on his proposal for free private cities. ==> Carlos and I discuss the 2017 tax reform’s impact on charitable giving. ==> This YouTube video using “optimal stopping theory” to guide you in dating wasn’t what I was expecting. In the search models we studied in grad school, you would […]

God as Hero or Villain?

I have tried expressing my views on how the “unfair” system described in the Bible is actually incredibly just, but I got the sense that it didn’t “take” last time. Let me try to explain it again. Suppose that when you die, you see the full impact of all of your choices throughout your life, […]

Murphy Triple Play

==> My article on Bitcoin’s 11th birthday. ==> My IER post on Sweden’s carbon tax. (I have some graphs in here that might surprise you.) ==> Another in my Austria vs. Law & Econ series. This time, I critique Armen Alchian’s arguments about air pollution. An excerpt (and note that I’m not changing the formatting, […]