Bob Murphy

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A Tale of Two Conspiracies

In the last month I have become intimately acquainted with two conspiracies afoot in the libertarian economics community: CONSPIRACY #1 James Buchanan was a founder of Public Choice economics. Its scholars are actively seeking to end injustice perpetrated by the State, and to advance individual liberty. Buchanan invited an outspoken opponent of apartheid to his […]

My Talk on the Paris Climate Agreement

This mostly summarizes the articles I’ve posted here, but some of you might prefer to see me hamming it up.

Jesus on ObamaCare

This is where we now stand in US politics: Looks like it's Captain Obvious time: Jesus healed people through His own mercy and power, not by taking from others against their will. https://t.co/dYp6ChTUj4 — Robert P. Murphy (@BobMurphyEcon) July 30, 2017

Article on Climate “Insurance”

The title is the best part, but here’s an angle I haven’t stressed much: What people often overlook in the climate change policy debates is that the severe outcomes that occur in the computer simulations typically don’t kick in until many decades down the road. Even if governments “do nothing,” so long as they get […]

RC Sproul on Romans

I’ve been listening to RC Sproul go through the book of Romans. This is something that took me a long time to get, even though I had gone to religious schools for years and had accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. Nonetheless, when I was going through counseling with the preacher who was […]

Explaining Current and Capital Accounts to Scott Sumner

(If that title sounds hostile and/or presumptuous, it’s only because I sat here for about 3 minutes trying to think of something funny.) Over at TheMoneyIllusion, Scott first quotes from a news story: The National Association of Realtors released a report Tuesday that said foreign buyers and recent immigrants spent an estimated $153 billion on […]

Potpourri

==> Oren Cass says climate alarmists are the real science deniers. ==> Excellent advice from Jordan Peterson for all of you super-intellectuals. ==> A lot of people have wondered if the mechanism by which expanded ACA (Medicaid) coverage has been correlated with mortality, is through opioid addiction. This guy thinks it’s a tenuous link. ==> […]