Bob Murphy

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I’m Genuinely Asking

Regarding the Starbucks controversy, I read this article and was struck by this passage: The arrest of two black men sitting quietly in a Philadelphia Starbucks has set off a national discussion about whether there are any places or activities where race doesn’t color the experience. Even something as innocuous and common as waiting at […]

Potpourri

==> David Gordon reviews the Independent Institute’s collection on Pope Francis. I wrote the Concluding essay. David included this zinger from me: Murphy answers alarmism about “climate change,” another feature of the Pope’s encyclical. Drastic restrictions on production are defended as “insurance” against an environmental catastrophe. Murphy responds: “Yet if the proper justification for aggressive […]

Murphy Stuff

Some of this may be repeats, but I’ve been traveling so much I may have skipped things… ==> Contra Krugman 133, we talk about Smoot-Hawley etc. We largely agree with Krugman on this one. ==> Tom Woods Show 1125: I am the special guest talking about the Coase Theorem. ==> Lara-Murphy Show Ep. 52: We […]

The Magical Murphy Tour

==> On Saturday April 14, I’ll be speaking with Jeff Deist and Carlos Lara about the economy, in Nashville. Details here. ==> On Monday April 16, I’ll be in NYC debating George Selgin on fractional reserve banking. Details here.

Jim Caveizel’s Moving Testimony

The actor who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion” tells a cool story from the set, and then makes some touching observations about the character of God.

Hayek and the Regression Theorem

Hayek had a controversial plan for privately issued, competing fiat currencies. (I talk about it here.) But uh oh, here’s a giant in Austrian economics who might be throwing cold water on the proposal: It is probably impossible for pieces of paper or other tokens of a material itself of no significant market value to […]