Ep. 62 Tough Questions for Progressives

Bob Murphy Show

English - September 24, 2019 22:54 - 41 minutes - 33.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 451 ratings
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Bob asks a series of tough (but fair, he hopes) questions for progressives, ranging from abortion to the minimum wage to climate change.
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Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

The NYT (front page) article discussing Obama’s “Secret Kill List.”
The clip of Obama saying, “We tortured some folks.”
William Nordhaus vs. the UN on climate change policy.
A cost-benefit analysis of compensating kidney donors.
A (pro-intervention) website showing the estimated effect of all governments meeting their Paris Agreement pledges. (Look at the thermometer on the front page.)
A 2010 article summarizing some of the research on traffic fatalities and Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations.
A Murphy article summarizing the “revisionist” literature on the minimum wage.
A 2017 post explaining some of the drivers of the gender “pay gap.”
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