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BMS ep. 202: “What Did Bob Learn?” Part 1 of 3

Due to listener request, I detail some of the times I changed my mind over the years.

Murphy Discusses Different Theories of the Biz Cycle

BMS ep 200: Vijay Boyapati Explains Why He Was Right About Inflation in 2010 and Bitcoin in 2018

An interesting discussion. Audio here, no video for this one.

New Developments in Austrian Interest Theory

Bob Murphy Show ep. 198 is a guest lecture I gave to Jonathan Newman’s online Master’s class for the Mises Institute. I set the historical table for BMS ep. 199, in which I talked with Jeff Herbener about his recent presentation at an Austrian conference on the pure time preference theory of interest. It was […]

Tyler Cowen’s Expansive Definition of Externalities

Jeff Bezos can spend his money on himself, or he could give it to other people, so they could spend it on themselves. If he opts for the former, this is a clear-cut negative externality. Right? I think most economists would agree that that is a terrible argument. And yet, it seems to be what […]

Murphy Formally Withdrawing from the Auburn-Fairfax Peace Treaty

Several years ago, a bunch of Austrian economists affiliated with the Mises Institute agreed to a peace treaty with a bunch of economists affiliated with George Mason University. At the time, there had just been a really ugly online battle, not so much between the actual professional economists, but among their fan bases. Although I […]

LSE Climate Economics “Expert”: Liar or Stupid?

I report, you decide. I am working on a study for the Fraser Institute that relies on the work of William Nordhaus. Long-time readers of my stuff know the irony of this work, because Nordhaus won the Nobel (Memorial) Prize in 2018 for his pioneering work on climate economics, on the same weekend that the […]

Bob Murphy Triple Play

==> Here’s my recent article for mises.org, explaining and criticizing one of the important contributions of the late Nobel laureate, Robert Mundell. ==> BMS ep. 196, in which Stephan Livera interviews me on the economics of Bitcoin. (There’s some new ground I cover in this one, if you’ve heard me talk about Bitcoin before.) ==> […]