Bob Murphy

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Barro on the Great Depression

Here’s a pretty interesting interview with Robert Barro on the Great Depression (HT2MR). He actually makes a distinction that you don’t normally see (and which I didn’t get into in my book). Normally the issue is, “Do we print more money or run higher deficits?” But here is a more nuanced take: [Browser]: So what […]

Does Religion Belong in Science and Politics?

In my curmudgeonly post on the Miss California controversy–fired off after a few days of little sleep–I provoked cries for clarification from my readers. So at the risk of digging myself deeper, let me use this Sunday’s “religious post” to elaborate. First off, I hate the very notion of the government having anything to do […]

Murphy on G. Gordon Liddy Show

I am going to be traveling all week. On Monday I will be participating in a Heritage Foundation event on “green jobs,” but while in DC I will be on (in studio) the G. Gordon Liddy show.* (You can check here to see how to listen live.) Obviously I’ll put a link to it after […]

Cost of Cap and Trade

At Townhall today I have a slightly more user-friendly version of the controversy over the $3,100 “phoney GOP statistic.” (Note that some of our friends on the other side of the issue are engaging in scholarly debate over the matter. I tried to post AEA’s clarifying article about why we continue to push that $3,100 […]

I’m So Glad I Don’t Have a TV

Whenever I travel, I am reminded of how awful TV is. Like a bag of circus peanuts, TV would be great if you had the willpower to just sample it. But no, I eat the circus peanuts until I want to jump off a bridge, and I flip through TV stations in a hotel room […]

Man versus Beast

I am a pacifist when it comes to interpersonal relations, but not when there is a showdown between humans and the lower creatures. We have these ginormous carpenter bees that find our wooden house delectable. So last Sunday I took a tennis racket and slew 15 of them (as well as a wasp that chose […]

Will Wilkinson Inhaled

WW comes out of the closet at Cato. I know I know, this raises an obvious question for me as another prominent blogger who can sway public opinion: For the record, I have never smoked pot with Will Wilkinson.

Potpourri

* During the debate over cap and trade, there was a lot of gnashing of teeth–including a “worst person in the world” designation from our national moralist–about the Republicans’ use of an MIT study to say the average American household would pay $3100 per year, once the program really kicked in. The MIT professor said […]