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Murphy Is a Jersey Boy This Weekend

I am doing an IBC Seminar (with Carlos Lara and Nelson Nash) this Saturday in Morristown, NJ. Details are here.

In the Long Run, I Will Always Quibble With Krugman

Although Steve Landsburg is trying to talk me down from the ledge, I think there’s something rotten in economics. (Maybe this is true in every field and I just notice it here because it’s my area; I’m open to the possibility that “humans are disappointing.”) For example, DeLong and Krugman have accused Mankiw of not […]

Murphy’s “History of Economic Thought Part II” Now Available on Liberty Classroom

Hey boys and girls, the second installment of my course on the History of Economic Thought is now available at Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom. This second installment is a tour of 20th century thought, covering the following topics: As the list indicates, some of these topics can get a bit technical. I’d like to think […]

Two Pacifists Fight on Twitter

I screenshotted (screenshot?) it because I think the embed feature would screw up the order, but this was a pretty big gulf in our worldviews: Here’s Bryan’s post.

Confused by the Confusion

I’ve been busy with traveling (including the super duper awesome Contra Cruise II), and so I am just now catching up on all of the controversy surrounding the economics of a corporate income tax cut. As you can imagine, some conservative/libertarian economists said good things about it, and then DeLong and Krugman pointed out that […]

Once you get to know Him…

In the movies and also in real life, there is a phenomenon where you might think a guy is a jerk/mean/etc., but then you learn more about him and see a different side. (A recent example for me was the Woody Harrelson movie “Wilson.”) Although I think the sentiment is often used in an annoying […]

Potpourri

==> Even though the Fed has merely been rolling over its balance sheet since the fall of 2014, the ECB continues to buy bonds, recently announcing only that it is cutting the size of its monthly purchases (from the current 60 billion down to 30 billion euros) as of this coming January. ==> The provocative […]

LIVE FROM THE CONTRA CRUISE: Contra Krugman Episode 109

This was a good one. Tom and I really get into the nuts and bolts of different approaches to economics. We springboard from Krugman’s discussion of “rationality” in economics, spurred by the Nobel going to Richard Thaler.