Robert Murphy Archive

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Salon Writer Notes Krugman's Blind Spot
2009.09.07 | Comments (8)

Even When Krugman's Right, He's Wrong
2009.08.27 | Comments (43)

Rothbardianism In Iraq?
2009.08.21 | Comments (56)

Krugman on Bad Actors
2009.08.18 | Comments (12)

Commerce & Civilization: A Review of Smash! Crash!
2009.08.14 | Comments (0)

Kudlow's Cuckoo for Clunkers
2009.08.12 | Comments (33)

Murphy vs. Madrick on the New Deal
2009.08.10 | Comments (34)

My Lucas Critique
2009.08.07 | Comments (15)

Brad DeLong's Erroneous Defense of Greenspan
2009.08.03 | Comments (9)

Does the Fed Need an Exit Strategy?
2009.07.27 | Comments (37)

CNBC Hates Saving
2009.07.19 | Comments (15)

Mish Should Ditch His Deflation Fears
2009.07.13 | Comments (83)

Christina Romer's Faulty Depression History
2009.07.06 | Comments (18)

CBO Cost Estimate of Cap & Trade Pulls Out All the Gimmicks
2009.06.25 | Comments (15)

Why I Expect Serious Stagflation
2009.06.15 | Comments (22)

Correcting Krugman on Climate
2009.06.08 | Comments (36)

The Costs of Carbon Legislation
2009.06.01 | Comments (38)

Correcting Quiggin on Austrian Business-Cycle Theory
2009.05.25 | Comments (96)

I Wrote the Guide to Extend Rothbard
2009.05.15 | Comments (6)

Murphy: Busting the Myth of Green Jobs
2009.05.13 | Comments (3)

Murphy on Great Depression in Houston
2009.05.03 | Comments (5)

Mankiw's Differing Views on Deflation
2009.04.28 | Comments (11)

The Nuttiness of Negative Interest Rates
2009.04.27 | Comments (25)

The Fake History of the Depression
2009.04.20 | Comments (18)

Greenspan's Bogus Defense
2009.04.06 | Comments (25)

Austrians Can Explain the Boom and the Bust
2009.03.30 | Comments (34)

Defend the Gold Standard
2009.03.16 | Comments (99)

Hey, Economists! Money and Interest Are Different Things
2009.03.02 | Comments (22)

Cut Taxes for the Right Reasons
2009.02.16 | Comments (31)

Banks Should Raise Prices in a Recession
2009.02.06 | Comments (33)

"Do You Austrians Have a Better Idea?"
2009.02.02 | Comments (74)

Robert Lucas's Strange Faith in Bernanke
2009.01.26 | Comments (18)

New Free Market Energy Blog
2009.01.20 | Comments (18)

Filling the Holes in Krugman's Analysis
2009.01.15 | Comments (36)

Pep talk for academics
2009.01.14 | Comments (4)

Does "Depression Economics" Change the Rules?
2009.01.12 | Comments (58)

Austrians and Keynesians Agree: Milton Was Wrong About the Depression
2009.01.09 | Comments (35)

New PRI Report on the Benefits of Economic Freedom
2009.01.07 | Comments (5)

The SEC Makes Wall Street More Fraudulent
2009.01.05 | Comments (4)

Study Guide to Human Action
2008.12.17 | Comments (6)

Hayek Tells Bill Buckley That Even Keynes Was Afraid of the Keynesians
2008.12.16 | Comments (7)

Oops, Correction to Murphy Article on Evidence for Housing Boom
2008.12.15 | Comments (3)

Evidence that the Fed Caused the Housing Boom
2008.12.15 | Comments (37)

An Open Letter to Gary Becker re: Depressions
2008.11.24 | Comments (32)

Did the Fed, or Asian Saving, Cause the Housing Bubble?
2008.11.19 | Comments (45)

Consumers Don't Cause Recessions
2008.11.11 | Comments (70)

Markets Need Time, Not More Poison
2008.11.06 | Comments (10)

Why I Don't Vote
2008.11.03 | Comments (68)

Is Gold Going Up or Down?
2008.10.30 | Comments (48)

The Bogus "Credit Crunch"
2008.10.24 | Comments (23)

The Importance of Capital Theory
2008.10.20 | Comments (73)

Economic and Climate Models
2008.10.14 | Comments (17)

Blatant Contradictions From Larry Kudlow
2008.10.13 | Comments (7)

A time to praise central banking?
2008.10.10 | Comments (22)

Bernie Jones Interviews Bob Murphy About Bailout
2008.10.07 | Comments (1)

The Great Bank Robbery of 2008
2008.09.30 | Comments (33)

The We Don't Heart Paulson Club
2008.09.27 | Comments (5)

"Conservatives Should Oppose Corporate Welfare"
2008.09.27 | Comments (9)

Murphy vs. Paulson Bailout
2008.09.26 | Comments (3)

How Henry Paulson Made Sprint Be Mean to Me
2008.09.24 | Comments (3)

Op Ed Opposition to Fannie and Freddie Seizure
2008.09.16 | Comments (3)

Bohm-Bawerk Blows Up Economists Even After He's Dead
2008.09.15 | Comments (4)

Don't do it
2008.09.10 | Comments (5)

Short-Sale Restrictions Are an Exercise in Naked Power
2008.08.11 | Comments (55)

ANWR Drilling Would Provide Quick Relief
2008.07.28 | Comments (19)

In Restraint of Trade
2008.07.22 | Comments (0)

Austrian Realists
2008.07.17 | Comments (21)

The Market Works Just in Time
2008.07.07 | Comments (37)

Fox Interviews a Rothbardian
2008.06.27 | Comments (17)

Speculators Fixing Oil Prices? Don't Bet On It!
2008.06.23 | Comments (6)

Tom Woods Interviews Bob Murphy
2008.06.10 | Comments (6)

Article Under Peer Review Tackles Economic Case for Pricing Carbon
2008.06.05 | Comments (22)

Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution"
2008.06.04 | Comments (53)

The Government's Statistical Whopper of the Year
2008.05.27 | Comments (18)

Maxine Waters can't say the word socialize
2008.05.23 | Comments (20)

PRI Flat Tax Study Released
2008.05.13 | Comments (9)

Economists and Their Frameworks
2008.05.05 | Comments (16)

Are Recessions Deflationary?
2008.04.28 | Comments (53)

Did the Fed Cause the Housing Bubble?
2008.04.14 | Comments (10)

The Problems of Central Bank Planning
2008.04.04 | Comments (75)

Kudlow Gets It Half Right
2008.03.19 | Comments (3)

Murphy and Hoskins on the Fed
2008.03.17 | Comments (7)

Michael Kinsley Loves Libertarians
2008.02.03 | Comments (2)

Correcting Kinsley on Libertarianism
2008.02.01 | Comments (15)

Painted Into a Keynesian Corner
2008.01.26 | Comments (4)

The Writers Strike and Jay Leno's Monologue
2008.01.11 | Comments (12)

Can Unions Cause Price Inflation?
2008.01.10 | Comments (12)

Stockpiles and Speculators
2008.01.07 | Comments (7)

Rejoinder to David Frum on the Gold Standard
2008.01.03 | Comments (21)

David Frum on the Gold Standard
2007.12.31 | Comments (45)

The Fed's Role in the Housing Bubble
2007.12.28 | Comments (11)

Study Guide to Human Action, Chapter XVII
2007.12.18 | Comments (0)

Privatize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve!
2007.12.14 | Comments (5)

Mechanism Design and the Free Market
2007.12.10 | Comments (16)

Peter Schiff on Mortgage Bailout
2007.12.09 | Comments (9)

The Mortgage Mess
2007.12.08 | Comments (12)

Arbitraging Ron Paul's Online Odds
2007.10.10 | Comments (8)

The Worst Recession in 25 years?
2007.10.01 | Comments (27)

Perpetual Trade Deficits Can Be Good
2007.09.11 | Comments (59)

A Falling Dollar, After All
2007.08.13 | Comments (31)

New Study Guides to Human Action
2007.07.24 | Comments (0)

How the Free Market Would Handle Quarantines
2007.07.16 | Comments (14)

Murphy Interviewed on The Political Cesspool
2007.07.09 | Comments (14)

The Student Loan Fiasco: Made in D.C.
2007.06.27 | Comments (4)

Weekend Study Guide
2007.06.01 | Comments (0)

New Chapters to Human Action Study Guide
2007.05.28 | Comments (1)

The Giant Gas-Gouging Gaffe
2007.05.25 | Comments (27)

More on Human Action
2007.04.26 | Comments (0)

Private Defense Is No Laughing Matter
2007.04.09 | Comments (79)

Blogger Covering Anarchist Rally Goes Free
2007.04.04 | Comments (7)

Trade Deficits and Collectivism
2007.03.26 | Comments (159)

Wal-Mart, Like Drug Dealers, Supports Terrorism
2007.03.22 | Comments (8)

New Podcast Series: Easy Pieces in Austro-Libertarianism
2007.03.08 | Comments (6)

More of the Study Guide to Human Action
2007.03.06 | Comments (0)

Chaos Theory now online
2007.02.27 | Comments (11)

The Greens Reduce Alcohol Consumption, Too?
2007.02.26 | Comments (4)

Trade Deficits and Fiat Currencies
2007.02.15 | Comments (113)

Young Criminals Don't Respond to Incentives?
2007.02.07 | Comments (27)

Isn't the Capital Surplus a Good Thing?
2007.01.22 | Comments (157)

Does Business Need Washington To Manage Wages?
2007.01.15 | Comments (26)

Yellow Journalism at the Weekly Standard
2007.01.03 | Comments (12)

Putting the Economics Back in Christmas
2006.12.25 | Comments (2)

The Social Function of Call and Put Options
2006.12.13 | Comments (17)

The Social Function of Futures Markets
2006.11.29 | Comments (9)

Julian Simon's Wager With Paul Ehrlich
2006.11.27 | Comments (20)

The Social Function of Stock Speculators
2006.11.22 | Comments (29)

Anarchy (well, almost) in the Roads
2006.11.12 | Comments (5)

Upsidedown Luddism: The Case of Immigration
2006.10.03 | Comments (31)

Hey honey, I went to school with this guy!
2006.09.14 | Comments (4)

Should An Economist Analyze Housing?
2006.09.13 | Comments (23)

Slate Article: Sanctions Never Work!!
2006.08.04 | Comments (6)

The Worst Article Ever?
2006.08.02 | Comments (49)

At Least They're Not Being Gouged
2006.07.24 | Comments (9)

Government Forces Teenager to Get Chemotherapy
2006.07.21 | Comments (34)

Al Franken on Lying Liars
2006.07.18 | Comments (5)

Paying People to Vote in Arizona
2006.07.18 | Comments (9)

Taleb on Mainstream Economics
2006.07.12 | Comments (2)

Superman Needs an Agent
2006.07.11 | Comments (17)

So Economics Isn't Enough, Huh?
2006.06.06 | Comments (30)

Hot News Item: Votes of 86 people mattered!
2006.05.04 | Comments (1)

Columbia Business School Rips Bernanke
2006.04.26 | Comments (2)

Bush to Iran: Don't You Wish We Had Been Disarmed?
2006.04.16 | Comments (41)

Soda and the Sin Tax
2006.03.29 | Comments (21)

Is There a Libertarian Case Against Free Trade?
2006.03.13 | Comments (75)

Clever, Cooperating Undergrads
2006.03.12 | Comments (7)

Private Law and Pizza?
2006.03.03 | Comments (58)

What Money is Not
2006.02.28 | Comments (54)

More from PCR on outsourcing
2006.02.16 | Comments (26)

Free Market = Mass Society = Bad?
2006.02.15 | Comments (68)

Is Free Trade Really Wrecking the Union?
2006.02.15 | Comments (18)

Why Rothbard Makes Sense
2006.02.10 | Comments (5)

The Gas-Line Quagmire in Iraq
2006.02.06 | Comments (27)

Aren't Deficits Another Name for Saving? Nope.
2006.01.27 | Comments (13)

Government Debt Has No Upside
2006.01.16 | Comments (104)

Role Playing Games and Money
2006.01.07 | Comments (18)

Can Free Trade Ever Harm a Country?
2006.01.05 | Comments (19)

The Alleged China Threat
2005.12.15 | Comments (24)

How a Market Might Have Handled Katrina
2005.11.17 | Comments (26)

Study Guide for Rothbard Finished!
2005.11.04 | Comments (3)

My Bizarro Twin
2005.10.13 | Comments (3)

Spontaneous Order in Kenya
2005.09.11 | Comments (2)

Why Home Study?
2005.09.01 | Comments (5)

Canadian Court for Private Health Care?
2005.08.28 | Comments (4)

Education Investment (not Loans)
2005.08.20 | Comments (6)

Should We Love or Loathe the Mafia?
2005.08.12 | Comments (46)

The Possibility of Private Law
2005.08.03 | Comments (66)

Austrian Economists in Mass Media
2005.07.21 | Comments (6)

Hayek's Plan for Private Money
2005.07.18 | Comments (66)

Wouldn't the Warlords Take Over?
2005.07.07 | Comments (116)

Ridiculous Scenarios
2005.06.21 | Comments (42)

Scott Horton's Weekend Interview
2005.06.19 | Comments (1)

Bush-Style Privatization: More and More Problems
2005.06.12 | Comments (22)

Austrian-friendly JEP article
2005.06.10 | Comments (1)

A Recommendation for the Dehomogenization Debate
2005.06.10 | Comments (3)

Private Schools a Failure?
2005.06.02 | Comments (7)

Austrian Economist defends Bush SS plan
2005.06.01 | Comments (5)

More Fun Than Truth
2005.05.25 | Comments (10)

Great Slate Piece on Insurance
2005.05.24 | Comments (4)

Bush's Impossible Social Security Plan
2005.05.12 | Comments (26)

George Bernard Shaw on Calculation
2005.05.09 | Comments (2)

(Minor) Criticisms of Kinsella
2005.05.05 | Comments (11)

Austrians Can Now Pass the Market Test...
2005.05.03 | Comments (4)

Are Higher Prices a Blessing?
2005.05.03 | Comments (14)

Return to Gold?
2005.04.30 | Comments (55)

MES Study Guide, Chap. 11
2005.04.27 | Comments (0)

A Personal Request from Milton Friedman!
2005.04.20 | Comments (29)

What Are You Calling Anarchy?
2005.04.01 | Comments (48)

Price Spreads and Brokers
2005.03.24 | Comments (1)

Murphy Essay on Oil
2005.03.17 | Comments (9)

Libertarians for a National Sales Tax?
2005.03.16 | Comments (16)

More Study Guide Chapters for MES
2005.03.14 | Comments (5)

Eliminating Grocery Shortages
2005.03.09 | Comments (26)

Libertarians Against Theft: What Victorians!
2005.02.24 | Comments (9)

Accountants Don't Know Time is Money / Paper Idea
2005.02.23 | Comments (6)

Bush Raising Taxes? Kudlow Shocked, Shocked
2005.02.20 | Comments (17)

Objectivists Close to Rothbardians??
2005.02.19 | Comments (11)

Murphy Talk on Anarchism
2005.02.11 | Comments (5)

Kudlow's Analysis of Bush
2005.02.10 | Comments (2)

The Joy of Labor
2005.02.04 | Comments (11)

Liberty and Order, Home and Abroad
2005.02.01 | Comments (10)

Philosophers Reject Self-Referential Arguments?
2005.01.25 | Comments (20)

Keep Your Eye on the Assumptions
2005.01.25 | Comments (19)

Lacunae in Subjective Value Theory?
2005.01.24 | Comments (12)

"Simon Market" Starting Up
2005.01.16 | Comments (4)

Should Anarchists Take State Money?
2005.01.10 | Comments (40)

The Infant Industry Argument
2005.01.02 | Comments (25)

You Can Pay to Avoid Searches
2004.12.30 | Comments (1)

The Recent JEP Samuelson Article on Trade
2004.12.29 | Comments (7)

Jennifer Government, an an-cap novel
2004.12.28 | Comments (16)

Can Trade Bring Poverty?
2004.12.24 | Comments (23)

Wait a Sec: Why Are Misers Good?
2004.12.23 | Comments (11)

What Makes One an Economist?
2004.12.18 | Comments (16)

Chapter 8 Available for Rothbard Study Guide
2004.12.16 | Comments (5)

New Theory for Road Design
2004.12.12 | Comments (12)

Becker-Posner: Negative Expected Benefits
2004.12.08 | Comments (5)

People Can Just Get Along
2004.12.06 | Comments (13)

Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest
2004.11.26 | Comments (7)

Chapter 7 of MES Study Guide
2004.11.10 | Comments (2)

Oops! Reagan Record Not So Bad?
2004.11.09 | Comments (1)

Bread, Circuses, Tax Cuts, and Debt
2004.11.05 | Comments (11)

Bush's Fancy Finance
2004.10.27 | Comments (3)

Guardian Tries to Influence US Election
2004.10.21 | Comments (3)

Free Banking Conference in Panama
2004.10.20 | Comments (5)

A Study Guide to Rothbard
2004.10.18 | Comments (8)

Profit, Loss, and Pluto
2004.10.14 | Comments (13)

The Final Frontier
2004.10.05 | Comments (5)

What Does Marginality Mean?
2004.08.11 | Comments (16)

The Mystery of Central Banking
2004.07.21 | Comments (11)

Golfing Boehm-Bawerk
2004.06.28 | Comments (10)

Beggars Can Be Choosers
2004.06.23 | Comments (23)

What is the Proper Way to Run a School?
2004.05.05 | Comments (10)

Sraffa's Production of Fallacies by Means of Fallacies
2004.04.08 | Comments (2)

The Explanatory Power of Economic Logic
2004.03.15 | Comments (0)