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Depreciation Rules and Investment Swings

And now for something, completely different. Since there aren’t too many people willing to pay me to spin out the implications of a private legal system, I have been focusing more on research for investors. (In all seriousness, if you are curious about such individualized consultting work, drop me an email.) Tom Landstreet and I […]

Sumner Needs to Watch Some Film and Hit the Gym

I used to say that Scott Sumner would be a far more formidable debating opponent than Paul Krugman, but lately I’m not so sure. I think for our debate, I just may print out 5 of Scott’s posts and ask the judge if I can submit them as exhibits. For example, here’s Scott’s latest post […]

Watching Freedom

I’ll be on Judge Napolitano’s show today. Set your DVRs to stun.

I Like This Guy’s Enthusiasm

…though I’m not sure those are the three takeaways I would have attributed to our book. (Plus I would have given myself 5 stars.)

Potpourri

Lots of links have been piling up here… * You know how Keynesians liked that one journal article showing that businesses were more worried about bad sales than regulations? Well, when a survey shows the exact opposite, they still take it as further evidence that the demand-side story is right. (Note that I’m not saying […]

Murphy Debate With Sumner in January

It’s on. (I was going to link to an Eazy-E video of the song with that title, but remembered that women and children read this blog.) We haven’t picked an official date yet, but Sumner and I will go toe-to-toe in January. The topic? Anthropogenic climate change. He’s for, I’m against. Or maybe we’ll talk […]

Thoughts on the Econ Nobel Laureates

David R. Henderson is, as usual, much more courteous than I am. He argues that this year’s awards should be construed as “non-Keynesian,” and maybe he’s right. Yet here was my take: This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics goes to two Americans, Thomas Sargent (NYU) and Christopher Sims (Princeton). Officially the award is for […]

Who Wants to Be My Synthetic Friend?

OK I broke down and joined Twitter. (It has to do with the Washington Times gig; they are really pushing us to be social or something.) So, if you are so inclined, follow me @BobMurphyEcon.