Mises Search
Welcome to our search page.
As you use the search throughout the site, there are a few things to keep in mind:
- You can filter results by date, author, topic, and other attributes on the left
- To save a search use the bookmarking feature in your browser
- Download current search results as a CSV
- Search found 16 items for:
- Other Schools of Thought
- Robert P. Murphy
- 2009
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
Wily competitors have known for ages that if you can’t win the game, you can simply change the rules. Now, during normal economic times, if somebody recommended that the government borrow a trillion dollars and spend it on anything that moves, most economists (as well as common sense) would say, “That’s nuts.” So one would think that especially in
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
Although many free-market economists were aghast that Paul Krugman won the Nobel ( Memorial ) Prize in Economics, I have come to realize that he is every bit as brilliant as that august award indicates. For some time now, Krugman has said we are in “depression economics” mode , where the normal rules of scarcity and tradeoffs don’t apply . In this
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
A lot of people get annoyed with Austrian economists because they tend to be so dogmatic (we prefer the term consistent ) and because they cloak their strictly economic claims with self-righteousness (we prefer the term morality ). After a good Austrian bashing of the latest call to steal taxpayer money and waste it on something that will make a
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
[An MP3 audio version of this article, read by Dr. Floy Lilley, is available as a free download .] In two of his recent op-eds ( here and here ) for the New York Times , Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has challenged critics of the government’s intentions to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, and he has even specifically endorsed the pending
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
When doing interviews for my new book on the Great Depression , a natural question comes up: will the present crisis turn out as bad as the 1930s? My standard answer is typical for an economist: “yes and no.” On the one hand, there were very specific reasons that unemployment broke 25 percent in 1933, and we don’t have those factors in place
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
In a previous article , I argued that Paul Krugman’s recent articles in support of government efforts to mitigate climate change — and in particular the Waxman-Markey legislation pending in Congress — were typically misleading. Specifically, Krugman’s estimate that “serious” efforts to fight climate change would cost only 2 percent of GDP by the
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
“Romer’s historical account only makes sense if one has an a priori commitment to the remedial role of deficit spending.” Christina Romer, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, recently wrote an ode to Keynesian deficit spending as a method for curing severe recessions. Yet a simple glance at the big picture shows that the
Mises Daily
Author:
Robert P. Murphy
Online Publish Date:
Even as the Austrian critique of Greenspan’s housing bubble gains more adherents, some economists have tried to exonerate the former Maestro. Previously on these pages, I have responded to Henderson and Hummel’s defense of the former Fed chairman, and I also took on Greenspan’s own list of excuses. In today’s article I’ll go through Brad DeLong’s