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“Where Are All the Libertarian Women?”

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The Flu Preference

When I describe gastrointestinal illness as “an extreme, socially disapproved preference,” the most convincing counter-example people offer is the flu. Do I really think people “want to have the flu” or choose the flu as a bizarre alternative lifestyle? My quick answer: These objections confuse preferences with meta-preferences. No one chooses to have the gene for cilantro aversion. Yet people with […]

IBC and the Business Owner, Part 1 of 3

I start a new series on our podcast with Carlos.

BMS Ep. 24: Murphy Dissects His Discussion on MMT with Warren Mosler

My latest episode…

Potpourri

==> My IER post discussing my Fraser Institute study on the Alberta carbon tax. ==> I was naughty again. ==> I talked about MMT from a socialist perspective, with another guy who was also neither MMT nor socialist. ==> James Galbraith gets saucy on MMT. ==> Does anyone know about WhenHub? I’m looking for an […]

Peter Klein Talks Entrepreneurship

And Christina Romer, Bill Clinton, and Israel Kirzner. The latest episode of the Bob Murphy Show. Incidentally, especially for young Austrian grad students / PhDs, Peter and I talk about shortcomings in standard Austrian theory at the tail end.

Trump’s “Very Fine People” Redux

For some reason, this is a hot topic again. (It partly has to do with Scott Adams on Twitter. I think it’s because somebody tried to edit the Wikipedia article to merely add actual quotations from Trump–and then had them taken down within minutes–and he passed along the story to Scott Adams. But, for all I […]