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Robert P. Murphy

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Robert P. Murphy is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute and Research Assistant Professor with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. He is the author of many books. His latest is Contra Krugman: Smashing the Errors of America's Most Famous Keynesian. His other words include Chaos Theory, Lessons for the Young Economist, and Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action (Independent Institute, 2015) which is a modern distillation of the essentials of Mises's thought for the layperson. Murphy is co-host, with Tom Woods, of the popular podcast Contra Krugman, which is a weekly refutation of Paul Krugman's New York Times column. He is also host of The Bob Murphy Show.

Chaos Theory by Robert Murphy
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Chaos Theory

Political Theory

01/01/2002Books
Working within a Rothbardian framework, Murphy takes up the challenge of Hans Hoppe regarding the role of market insurance in property security to extend the analysis to the security of person.
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Lessons for the Young Economist by Robert Murphy
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Lessons for the Young Economist

EducationAustrian Economics Overview

03/10/2011Books
Murphy's textbook prepares the student for both conventional economic studies in the future, and provides the logical rigor and policy clarity that only the Austrian School perspective can offer.
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More Than Quibbles: Problems with the Theory and History of Fractional Reserve Free Banking

The FedMoney and Banking

06/18/2019Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Are holders of banknotes implicitly lending funds to the issuing bank? Do historical periods of relatively free banking illustrate the stability of the system? A response to Bagus and Howden.
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The Bob Murphy Show
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Tucker Carlson Wants Affirmative Action for American Workers

Big GovernmentProtectionism and Free TradeU.S. EconomyInterventionism

06/13/2019Audio/Video
Bob Murphy disagrees with Tucker Carlson's unambiguous approval of Elizabeth Warren’s call for “economic nationalism”.
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The Bob Murphy Show
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Stephan Kinsella Discusses Law Without the State, and the Illegitimacy of Intellectual Property

Legal SystemPrivate Property

06/12/2019Audio/Video
Bob Murphy and Stephan Kinsella discuss the basis of libertarian law, and how we could have justice without a coercive State.
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The Bob Murphy Show
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Bob Nails Krugman's Perverse Morality on Infrastructure Spending

Big GovernmentTaxes and SpendingU.S. Economy

06/10/2019Audio/Video
Bob Murphy discusses Krugman's shocking willingness to harm the country—as long as it denies Trump a political victory.
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What Universities Won't Teach College Students About the Economics of Climate Change

Big GovernmentEducationThe Environment

Blog06/10/2019

The rhetorical framing of "climate change" is far removed from the underlying research. And the real-world costs of "doing something" are rarely considered.

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