The Institute for New Economic Thinking is featuring an evening with Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz . Lots of brand new economic thinking will surely take place. So who’s bringing the “Debate Murphy” and “ KrugmanDebate.com ” signs?
‘No Candidate Without False Teeth Has Ever Been Elected…’
Me in Spain (Video)
This very short video, under three minutes long, was made during my various activities in Madrid last June, when I was a guest of the Fundacion Rafael del Pino .
I Am Academic and Funny All at Once, Insists Colleague
I made Bob Murphy (whom you know from KrugmanDebate.com , I trust) chuckle involuntarily, I discovered thanks to this two-and-a-half-minute video. This is very hard to do — it’s easy to laugh at Bob’s jokes, but much harder to make Bob himself laugh. Oh, and here’s the link Bob is talking… Read More
It’s a Wonderful Life (With Capitalism)
(Thanks to Travis Holte.)
George Will Repeats Fed Propaganda
“End the Fed” is much too radical for the American intellectual class, but everyone wants to jump aboard the anti-Fed bandwagon these days. So now we’re hearing, here and there, the “if only the Fed would return to its original mission” thing. That’s the line… Read More
Are Austrians and Keynesians on the Same Side After All?
Another of my barter-scrip critic’s claims : “Austrian/Keynsian economics are simply a Hegelian Debate wherein un-payable debt/interest contracts prevail with, or without force.” This claim rests on a confusion regarding what a “Hegelian debate” is. The Hegelian dialectic, which owes its formulation less to Hegel than… Read More
Woods Event in Italy
I won’t be there, I’m sorry to say; I was last in Italy in 2007 for this event , marking the translation of two of my books into Italian. Now The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History has been translated into Italian , and the translator and a couple other folks are holding a special event in Naples on October 25 to… Read More
Music Post #7
“Neverland” by Marillion. This takes a few listens. Then it hits you. I’ve decided this song needs to be heard live, so here’s the next best thing:
Nike Drops Lance Armstrong
Citing the “seemingly insurmountable” evidence suggesting that Lance Armstrong used drugs, and coerced his teammates into doing likewise, in his quest to win the Tour de France, Nike has severed ties with the embattled athlete. I don’t know the quality of the evidence against Armstrong, though on the surface it… Read More