Shameless Self-Promotion

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Provocative Potpourri

==> Tom Woods has an ensemble on to explain why Murray Rothbard was important. And if you protest, “Why are you guys so sectarian?!” all I can say is, “They started it!!” ==> Oh, now that I’ve posted my sample Liberty Classroom lecture, I don’t mind posting this Contra Krugman episode where we mention the […]

Sample “Liberty Classroom” Lecture on Bohm-Bawerk

As 3 of you know, my doctoral dissertation focused on the work of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk. I was thrilled to be able to devote three of my lectures in my course for Tom Woods’ “Liberty Classroom” to Bohm-Bawerk’s work. Partly because I think even Mises and Rothbard misunderstood what Bohm-Bawerk was saying, I decided this […]

Michigan Reform

With co-authors, I have a new study from the Fraser Institute documenting the surprisingly sharp economic turnaround in Michigan. (We contrast it with Ontario.)

Why the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) Is a Dubious Tool for Policymakers

I don’t think I blogged this when it ran… my latest at IER.

Catching up on Podcasts

==> Tom and I talk Trump, globalization, and Chinese currency manipulation in the latest Contra Krugman. ==> Carlos and I talk Brexit in the latest Lara-Murphy Show.

Monetary Calculation

This is not the same old, same old. I tried to motivate Mises’ insights on economic calculation with new angles. An excerpt: [When I worked for a volunteer group after the Haitian earthquake], we all had to choose which team we would join during a given block of time, but there were rules so that […]

Murphy Interview With Unbiased America

This turned out pretty interesting.

Mises Defeats the Robot Overlords

My latest FEE article responds to Scott Alexander’s intriguing (but baseless, I think) worries: Yet these are mere quibbles. The real difficulty is that Alexander has implicitly assumed that the mines of iron ore (that’s how you make steel) are either unowned, or are owned by one of the two operations in the loop. There’s […]