Bob Murphy

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Dan Sanchez on Jordan Peterson Helping the Joker

This post is dedicated to Andrew MD (who recently derided Jordan Peterson in the comments here). Here’s the audio podcast, and below of course is the video.

Murphy vs. Cochrane

I have been reading (and enjoying) John Cochrane’s blog lately, which means I show my appreciation by criticizing any mistakes I perceive. My latest at Mises.org laments that Cochrane said income is a “meaningless concept.” I push back with an analogy. (I won’t change the formatting because then it would be double-nested; the following words […]

Mark Thornton on the Economics of Slavery

This was a fun interview.

Two Approaches to Sustainability

The earth is crawling w/ ~8 billion powerhouses of potential, who are greatly constrained by their bondage–including political, social, & emotional. Serious thinkers want to reduce the population so that the planet can sustain us. Or we could free everyone. That would work too. — Robert P. Murphy (@BobMurphyEcon) October 25, 2019

Bob Murphy Show ep. 70

A potpourri of an episode, where I tell stories about my adventures with cashiers, explain my epistemic failure, and do my impression of the Godfather, among other goodies…

Potpourri

==> Two recent interviews at Lara-Murphy Report, one with Bill Peacock talking about Texas electricity markets, and with Rafael Acevedo on his experience as an economist (and father) in Venezuela. ==> The latest Bob Murphy Show interviews Richard Vedder on the problems with higher education. ==> Two seasteaders marked for death by Thai navy. ==> […]

Potpourri

==> In the latest Bob Murphy Show I interview Jeff Snider on the repo market flare-up. ==> Why the media needed the new Joker movie to fail. ==> Kopczuk explains some of the background on the new inequality claims.

Potpourri

==> When researchers point out all of the uncertainties in our current models guiding us on climate change policy, are they the good guys or the bad guys? It depends what year it is, as I explain in my latest IER article. ==> My latest Mises.org article on Austrian vs. mainstream Law & Econ on […]