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Murphy Interviewed on Our Banking System

The interview will be broadcast at 1pm central time. You can get it here. It is Mike McKay’s “Radio Free Market” show, with a guest host.

Fight the Power! Online Class on Private Law and Defense

Starting August 24, I will offer a 4-week online course at the Mises Academy on private law and private defense. The total cost is $150. Details here. (For a screenshot of the syllabus, click this and put the “magnifying glass” over the image if your browser doesn’t expand it automatically.)

Lessons for the Young Economist, now on Betamax

The women who edit the books at the Mises Institute want me to stress that this is the BETA version, but here is the PDF of my forthcoming principles textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. I am really happy with the way this turned out. Even though it’s aimed at junior high kids, glance through […]

“Minnesota Government Mistreats Ladies”

…thus the provocative, Internet-ish title of my recent Mises Daily: Recently the Minnesota Department of Human Rights — a funny title in itself — declared that the practice of “ladies’ night” was illegal gender discrimination. Apparently, five establishments in the Twin Cities area were denying men “full and equal enjoyment” of their services because they […]

“Double Dip Looks Doubly Certain”

So I argue in “MarketWatch.” I’m telling you, my fellow Austro-libertarians, we have to consolidate as much as possible during the Obama Administration. Right-wingers are suddenly listening to us, when we would have been derided as black helicopter nutjobs during the Bush years. An excerpt: The rationale for Greenspan’s easy-credit policy was to provide a […]

DeLong on Deficits

By popular demand, today at Mises.org I critique a Brad DeLong blog post which had said, “We need bigger deficits now!” An excerpt: This is part of the problem with Keynesian economics. It’s true, in certain circumstances it can spit out an answer that is reasonable — such as this case, where DeLong agrees that […]

Informal Post-Game Show

I still have a ton of work to catch up on, since I had to let everything else slide while running around for the Night of Clarity which was this past weekend. We are also getting everything put up on our websites (the PDF of the new book, the ability to purchase a hard copy, […]

The Economics of Libertarianism, Confused

Today at Mises.org I respond to Ed Glaeser’s recent piece on libertarianism, in which he pointed to the BP oil spill as proof that we need government regulation: We’ve seen this rhetorical move so often that it no longer shocks, but I ask the reader to stop for just a moment and consider what Glaeser […]