Bob Murphy Show
317 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 451 ratingsThe podcast promoting free markets, free minds, and grateful souls.
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Ep. 17 Alex Tabarrok on Tolerant Rothbardians, the Market for Kidneys, and Potential Security Flaws in Bitcoin
February 19, 2019 10:30 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabarrok.jpeg ()Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and co-author (with Tyler Cowen) of the very popular blog, Marginal Revolution. Bob and Alex cover a wide range of topics, including his early experience with Rothbardians, the brief window when economics blogs were the center of discussion, problems with the FDA, how a kidney market might work, and why Bitcoin is not as secure as some of its fans bel...
Ep. 16 Joe Salerno on Economic Calculation, Fractional Reserve Banking, and Stories of Rothbard as White Knight
February 13, 2019 19:34 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Salerno-2012B-cropped.jpg ()Joe Salerno is Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute and one of the world’s leading economists in the Rothbardian tradition. He discusses his intellectual roots as well as his scholarly work on money and banking. But Bob also asks Joe to recount some of his funny adventures with Murray Rothbard. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The Mises Institute’s https://mises.org/events/a...
Ep. 15 David Gornoski on Biblical Mercy, Scapegoats, and the State as Vehicle of Human Sacrifice
February 06, 2019 17:23 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gornoski.jpg ()David Gornoski is the creator of “A Neighbor’s Choice,” a media platform that tells the stories of victims of State violence and which provides healthy alternatives to a violence-based society. David hosts the Orlando-based “A Neighbor’s Choice” radio program on WFLA 93.1 FM and 540 AM. Much of his work is an application of René Girard’s mimetic theory. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: David Gorno...
Ep. 14 Murphy on Parables, Lizard People, and Good vs. Evil
January 31, 2019 20:58 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/3-lads-cover.jpg ()Bob goes solo, giving the context for his children’s book, The Three Lads and the Lizard King. He covers a wide range of related issues, including Jim Carrey’s Illuminati “warning” (?), nonviolence, and the sovereignty of God. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Full information on the book, http://bobmurphyshow.com/lizard (The Three Lads and the Lizard King). Jim Carrey’s https://www.youtube.com/...
Ep. 13 Dave Smith on Comedy, the Fed, Fatherhood, and Faith
January 24, 2019 08:25 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dave-smith.png () Standup comic and host of “Part of the Problem” Dave Smith joins Bob to talk about the theory and practice of comedy. They also discuss Dave’s discovery of Austrian economics, hypocritical leftists, the exasperating Tucker Carlson, and how the birth of his daughter led Dave to God. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Dave’s podcast, https://gasdigitalnetwork.com/gdn-show-channels/part-of-the-probl...
Ep. 12 Gene Epstein on Commies, Krugman, and Crushing Debaters
January 17, 2019 23:28 - 2 hours - 126 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gene-epstein.jpg () Gene Epstein, former Barron’s economics editor and founder of the Soho Forum, joins Bob for a lively discussion covering a variety of topics. Gene explains that his mother, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, had an FBI file and was responsible for Gene’s original position as a democratic socialist. It was only through his reading of Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State that Gene became a free-market libert...
Ep. 11 The Economics of Immigration and a Border Wall
January 09, 2019 20:21 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/border-wall.jpg ()Bob flies solo to provide an introductory framework on how to analyze the economics of immigration, as well as the politics involved in this controversial topic. The point isn’t to pick sides but to sharpen everyone’s arguments. For example: Make sure your arguments about immigration don’t “prove” that having babies makes a country poorer. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: A https://www.youtube.co...
Ep. 10 This One Simple Fed Trick Earns the Bankers Billions
December 27, 2018 00:19 - 50 minutes - 41.4 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/fed.jpg ()Bob flies solo to explain what he means when he tells crowds, “Back in the fall of 2008, as the financial crisis hit, the Fed began paying banks to not make loans to their customers.” Specifically, Bob explains the new Fed procedure of “paying interest on reserve balances.” As of the Fed’s December 2018 meeting, the Fed now pays the banks $40.8 billion on an annual basis–to not make loans to their customers. Mentioned in the ...
Ep. 9 Norman Horn on Morality and Politics, Christianity and the Troops, and How a Christian Libertarian Handles Romans 13
December 20, 2018 09:21 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Norman-Horn-logo.jpg ()Norman Horn is the founder and president of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He and Bob have a provocative conversation that will enlighten both believers and skeptics alike. They critically analyze the tendency of American Christians to support war, in its domestic and foreign applications. Norman gives Bob the best, succinct analysis of Romans 13 he has ever encountered. Bob ends (playing devil’s advocate) b...
Ep. 8 David R. Henderson on Working in the Reagan Administration, Krugman’s Inflation Memo, and Publicly Challenging the Secretary of Defense
December 12, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/david_henderson.jpg () Economist David R. Henderson underwent a personal odyssey in his discovery of free-market economics. David tells Bob the story of his recruitment by Harold Demsetz, and how David ended up at UCLA during its glory days. The conversation turns to David’s time on the Council of Economic Advisors to Ronald Reagan, as well as David’s unusual position as a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School while he was a colum...
Ep. 7 Gödel Made Easy: Explaining One of the Most Important Mathematical Demonstrations of All Time
December 05, 2018 22:36 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kurt_gödel.jpg ()Mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 published his two famous “incompleteness theorems,” which showed the principled limits on the knowledge we could generate from formal axiomatic systems. Loosely speaking, Gödel showed that there exist true statements about numbers that we will never be able to prove are true. His results have been cited not just in mathematics but also computer science and philosophy. In this episode,...
Ep. 6 Steve Landsburg on Learning Economics From Friedman and Stigler
November 28, 2018 20:43 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/landsburg.jpg () Steve Landsburg went to Chicago to do his graduate work in mathematics but was intrigued by the economics taught by Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Gary Becker, and other luminaries. We discuss the essence of Chicago price theory, the time when Steve was picketed by campus feminists, how Steve can climb aerial silks like Batman (while Bob looked more like the Penguin), and puzzles from his new book. Mentioned in ...
Ep. 5 Scott Horton on the Siege of Waco, the Perverse Logic of U.S. Foreign Policy, and How Trump Staved Off a Coup
November 21, 2018 12:00 - 2 hours - 105 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waco.jpg () Antiwar hero and all-around genius Scott Horton joins Bob for a lengthy discussion covering the siege and massacre at Waco, the motivations and perverse logic of the U.S. government’s interventions in the Middle East, and how Donald Trump staved off the establishment at the Republican convention and after the general election. Mentioned in the Episode: https://foolserrand.us/ (Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in A...
Ep. 4 A Conversation With Jeff Deist
November 14, 2018 12:00 - 51 minutes - 42.4 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/deist.jpg ()In this episode, Bob talks to Mises Institute president Jeff Deist. They discuss Jeff’s original goal of being a professor, his time as an attorney, his work as Ron Paul’s Chief of Staff, and his insider knowledge of DC politics. Mentioned in the Episode: Website of the https://mises.org (Mises Institute). https://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-refined (The Denationalisation of Money), by Fri...
Ep. 3 Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Amazon
November 07, 2018 03:59 - 50 minutes - 41.3 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/tucker-carlson.jpg ()In this episode Bob flies solo, taking on the popular idea–embodied in a TV clip by Tucker Carlson but also Bernie Sanders’ “Stop BEZOS’ Act”–that Amazon, Walmart, and other giant employers offload some of their labor costs onto the taxpayers through the food stamp and similar programs. Bob actually argues that, if anything, these federal programs probably lead Bezos et al. to pay higher hourly wages to workers, es...
Ep. 2 A Conversation With Carlos Lara
November 07, 2018 03:33 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/carlos-lara.jpg ()In this episode, Bob talks to his old friend (and co-author) Carlos Lara. They discuss Carlos’ move from Mexico to Texas as a young boy, Carlos’ surprising relationship to the JFK assassination, suing the Marines, and how Carlos learned Austrian economics–the hard way. Mentioned in the Episode: The joint website Bob and Carlos run, http://lara-murphy.com (Lara-Murphy.com). Their co-authored book, htt...
Ep. 1 A Conversation With Tom Woods
November 04, 2018 08:10 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBhttps://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/tom-woods.jpg ()In this inaugural episode of The Bob Murphy Show, Bob talks to his old friend Tom Woods. They discuss the pros and cons of being captain of the math team, what makes a good historian, and how to give a great speech. Mentioned in the Episode: https://tomwoods.com/no-youre-not-a-dummy-for-believing-in-god/ (Tom’s sketch) of Aquinas’ proof of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVb3Xvny8-k (The debate on Je...