Posts by Robert P. Murphy
Robert P. Murphy is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the Independent book, Choice.
Do Migrants Drain Wealth from America When They Send Money Home?
Robert P. Murphy  •  Tuesday, August 27, 2019
What Bitcoin Taught the Public and Economists
Robert P. Murphy  •  Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Three Surprises About Nobel Laureate Nordhaus’s Model of Climate Change
Robert P. Murphy  •  Friday, October 19, 2018
Do Food Stamps Reduce Corporate Labor Costs?
Robert P. Murphy  •  Friday, September 21, 2018
Lehman Brothers and the 2008 Financial Panic: Learning the Right Lessons
Robert P. Murphy  •  Friday, September 14, 2018
Free Traders Should Be More Careful When Defending Trade Deficits
Robert P. Murphy  •  Saturday, May 5, 2018
Three Times Interventionists Moved the Goalposts, Part 3
Robert P. Murphy  •  Friday, July 14, 2017
Three Times Interventionists Moved the Goalposts, Part 2
Robert P. Murphy  •  Thursday, July 13, 2017
Three Times Interventionists Moved the Goalposts, Part 1
Robert P. Murphy  •  Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Reflections on Donald Trump’s Election
Robert P. Murphy  •  Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Trump and Clinton Are Both (Partly) Right on Economics
Robert P. Murphy  •  Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Mises, Military, and Market
Robert P. Murphy  •  Thursday, September 29, 2016
9/11 and the Political Uses of Crisis
Robert P. Murphy  •  Friday, September 9, 2016
Do Individuals Measure Value? Ludwig von Mises vs. David Friedman
Robert P. Murphy  •  Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Who’s the Bigger Witch Doctor? Gerald Friedman or Paul Krugman?
Robert P. Murphy  •  Thursday, February 25, 2016
Powerball and the Lucas Critique
Robert P. Murphy  •  Monday, January 11, 2016
Ryan Gosling’s Shorts
Robert P. Murphy  •  Monday, January 4, 2016
Shiller’s Irrational Faith in Government Regulation
Robert P. Murphy  •  Friday, November 13, 2015
We Need Free Enterprise in Banking
Robert P. Murphy  •  Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Celebrating Human Action—Ludwig von Mises’s Masterpiece
Robert P. Murphy  •  Monday, September 15, 2014
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