Bob Murphy Show

Bob Murphy Show episodes:

• 04.16.2024

  Ep. 317 Murphy Updates His Economic Outlook for the US

  Bob explains his current thinking on the US economy, specifically in relation to CPI inflation, employment, and the yield curve / recession.

  
• 04.12.2024

  Ep. 316 Stephan Kinsella on Rothbard’s Contributions to Legal Theory

  Stephan joins Bob to discuss his new book, Legal Foundations of a Free Society. They cover Rothbard's contributions to legal theory, as well as Bob and Stephan's differing entry points into libertarianism.

  
• 04.02.2024

  Ep. 315 Caesar's Realm, God's Kingdom: Anarchism as a Biblical Response to Earthly Power

  On March 27, 2024, Bob delivered this talk (as one of several) to the Free Enterprise Society at Oklahoma State University.

  
• 03.29.2024

  Ep. 314 WInston Ewert Asks: Is the Human Mind a Computer?

  Winston Ewert is a computer scientist and mathematician with numerous publications in the Intelligent Design (ID) field, including co-authored works with William Dembski. He joins Bob to discuss his recently published essay (a chapter in a collection) on the algorithmic...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Ep. 313 David Ramsay Steele on the Spirit World and George Orwell

  David Ramsay Steele has a new collection of essays out, and he joins Bob to discuss. Much of the conversation focuses on whether it makes sense to believe in spirits, as well as the life and changing views of George...

  
• 03.08.2024

  Ep. 312 JP Cortez Pushes For Sound Money at the State Level

  JP Cortez is Executive Director of the Sound Money Defense League. He joins Bob to discuss the League's strategy and their various successes.

  
• 03.03.2024

  Ep. 311 Sheldon Richman on Israel and the Libertarian Movement

  Sheldon Richman is an OG of the libertarian cause. Among other positions, he is currently Executive Editor at the Libertarian Institute. He joins Bob to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and reflects on his decades in the movement.

  
• 02.17.2024

  Ep. 310 Domenic Scarcella Argues Jesus Is a Good Neighbor But Bad Citizen

  Domenic Scarcella discusses his new book, which makes the case that Jesus' teachings and actions show Christians they should be good neighbors, but (in a sense) bad citizens. Bob pushes back at points to clarify what Domenic's position truly is.

  
• 01.30.2024

  Ep. 309 Gene Callahan on the Failure of Liberal Neutrality

  Gene Callahan teaches computer science at NYU and is the author of Economics for Real People. He joins Bob to discuss the inner contradictions of liberal neutrality. They also discuss AI and whether computers can really learn.

  
• 01.25.2024

  Ep. 308 To the Moon! Owen Benjamin Tells Bob Murphy Why Anarchism Fails

  Professional comedian Owen Benjamin joins Bob to discuss the attempt to de-platform him, the shape of the earth, and whether we need a strong State to protect financial integrity and children.

  
• 01.19.2024

  Ep. 307 All I Needed to Know About Leadership I Learned from the Transformers Movie

  Bob gives a dense commentary on the 1986 animated classic, explaining how the initially reckless Hot Rod rises from the ranks to become the successor to Optimus Prime.

  
• 01.17.2024

  Ep. 306 Keith Knight on Progressives' Domestic Imperialism

  In his new book published by the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight explains why he left progressivism. They could see the problems of foreign imperialism, but they cheered it domestically. A fast-paced discussion.

  
• 01.08.2024

  Ep. 305 An Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Gospel Accounts of Jesus Christ: Installment 2, Jesus as Logos

  Bob continues his miniseries, focusing on John 1: 1-5. Bob makes the case that we should be marveling at the unreasonable effectiveness of semantics in the social sciences. There is meaning packed into every field of human inquiry, and this...

  
• 01.02.2024

  Ep. 304 An Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Gospel Accounts of Jesus Christ: Installment 1, Introduction

  Bob launches a new miniseries, and starts by summarizing his chapter for a Festschrift in honor of Walter Block.

  
• 12.31.2023

  Ep. 303 Jonathan Bartlett Explains How Random Mutations Aren’t Always So Random

  Jonathan Bartlett is a prolific software engineer and textbook author who has published peer-reviewed articles on the information embedded in biological organisms. He joins Bob to discuss two of his recent papers, highlighting a distinction in the term "random mutation"...

  
• 12.23.2023

  Ep. 302 Satan Has Perverted the Classical Liberal Project

  Bob goes solo to argue that our current institutional framework in the US isn't arbitrary; it was hijacked by the evil one. He illustrates with the recent examples of the Satanic Temple in Iowa and the three university presidents who...

  
• 12.21.2023

  Ep. 301 Max Borders on UNDERthrowing Tyrannical Regimes

  Max Borders is Executive Director of Social Evolution. He has a freewheeling discussion with Bob on UNDERthrowing--rather than overthrowing--unjust regimes.

  
• 12.13.2023

  Ep. 300 David Gornoski on how the Israel/Hamas Propaganda War Shows Triumph of Christ

  David Gornoski uses Rene Girard's mimetic framework to show how the modern world has been transformed by the Christian account. He applies it in this discussion to the propaganda war in the Middle East.

  
• 12.02.2023

  Ep. 299 Bob Murphy Critiques 3 MMT Talking Points

  Bob goes solo to explain and critique three popular arguments put forward by the leaders of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

  
• 11.27.2023

  Ep. 298 Steve Landsburg on the Math Genius Grothendieck

  Steve joins Bob to discuss the life and revolutionary approach to mathematicians of Alexander Grothendieck.

  
• 11.19.2023

  Ep. 297 Dan Sanchez on Keeping the Faith Through Sickness, and Spreading Economic Education

  Dan Sanchez is Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). He explains some of FEE's new initiatives to teach free-market economics, but he first details his recently diagnosed medical condition and how his faith has been carrying...

  
• 11.14.2023

  Ep. 296 Jacob Winograd Explores What Exactly We're Supposed to Render to Caesar

  Jacob Winograd is the creator of the Biblical Anarchy podcast under the auspices of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He joins Bob to discuss the famous passages from the New Testament where Christians are ostensibly told to pay their taxes and...

  
• 10.29.2023

  Ep. 295 Christian Hubbs Presents the Historical Evidence for Jesus’ Resurrection

  Christian Hubbs has a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon, and a Masters in Christian philosophy and apologetics from Biola. He makes a secular case for the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

  
• 10.21.2023

  Ep. 294 Steve Keen on What’s Wrong With Neoclassical Economics

  Steve Keen joins Bob to commiserate on the poverty of Paul Krugman, and to make the case for Hyman Minksy. An all around fun, informative conversation.

  
• 10.17.2023

  Ep. 293 Ron Simmons on Succeeding in Life and Business

  Ron Simmons joins Bob for a delightful discussion about his new book Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon, full of wisdom and common sense.

  
• 10.11.2023

  Ep. 292 Adam Haman on Why Robert Redford Is a Better Looker Than Poker Player

  In this frolicking episode, professional poker player Adam Haman comes on to discuss movie depictions of poker. He also talks with Bob about his activity in the LP, and then deeper issues of epistemology and theology.

  
• 10.03.2023

  Ep. 291 Douglas Robert Uses MMT to Challenge Bob’s Recession Call

  Douglas Robert is a recovering Austrian who subscribes to the MMT framework as being the most useful for trading. He has a friendly debate with Bob over the inverted yield curve and whether a recession is at hand.

  
• 09.25.2023

  Ep. 290 Robert Barnes on the Proud Boys Jan. 6 Convictions

  Robert Barnes is a lawyer specializing in constitutional issues, who has defended several celebrity clients including Wesley Snipes and Alex Jones. He joins Bob to discuss the legal perversions surrounding the recent convictions of several Proud Boys members for their...

  
• 09.16.2023

  Ep. 289 Gene Epstein Takes Bob to the Woodshed Over Dubious Wage Data

  Gene Epstein is disappointed in Bob's kid-glove treatment of Oren Cass' critique of American capitalism, and explains some of the problems with the data that Oren relied upon to make his case.

  
• 09.06.2023

  Ep. 288 Do Libertarian Conspiracy Theories Violate Austrian Economics?

  Bob uses a recent exchange between Dave Smith and reason's Liz Wolfe to analyze the apparent tension between libertarian allegations of coordinated skullduggery and the Austrian critique of socialism.

  
• 09.05.2023

  Ep. 287 Ian Deters Defends the Use of Infinity in Higher Mathematics

  Back on BMS ep. 229, Bob invited Steve Patterson back to the show to discuss Riemann's Rearrangement Theorem, which was such a counterintuitive result that Bob changed his mind and agreed with Steve that mathematicians had smuggled nonsense into their...

  
• 08.16.2023

  Ep. 286 Scoring the Debate Over God Between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens, Part 2

  After having parsed William Lane Craig's opening statement making the case for theism, Bob now evaluates Christopher Hitchens' opening. He concludes that Hitchens hardly responded at all to Craig, and spent most of his time criticizing Christianity rather than theism.

  
• 08.07.2023

  Ep. 285 Scott Horton Gives the Essentials of the Waco Tragedy

  Scott Horton recently released a special production on Waco that clocked in at almost 13 hours. He joins Bob to discuss the essentials of the story, covering all aspects of the tragedy, starting with the religious views of the Davidians...

  
• 08.04.2023

  Ep. 284 Vance Ginn Interviews Bob Murphy on the Business Cycle and Weaknesses in Free Market Rhetoric

  Vance Ginn recently had Bob on his podcast, "Let People Prosper!"

  
• 07.29.2023

  Ep. 283 Oren Cass Warns Conservatives to Rethink Economic Libertarianism

  Oren Cass is the founder of American Compass, which has a new handbook advising conservatives on how to rebuild American capitalism. Bob provides a skeptical but friendly forum for Oren to explain his dissatisfaction with the standard libertarian position on...

  
• 07.23.2023

  Ep. 282 Scoring the Debate Over God Between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens, Part 1

  In 2009 the Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated Christopher Hitchens on the existence of God. In this episode Bob evaluates the 20-minute opening statement from Craig.

  
• 07.18.2023

  Ep. 281 Murphy vs. Twitter Econ

  Bob tackles recent tweets by Joe Weisenthal and Elon Musk to clarify the Austrian views on recessions and money.

  
• 07.08.2023

  Ep. 280 The Theory and History Needed to Refute Keynesianism and MMT

  As a sequel to a recent Human Action podcast episode where Bob critiques a Warren Mosler interview, Bob here goes deeper into the analysis of how an economy can continue growing even if the government eliminates its budget deficit. Bob...

  
• 07.02.2023

  Ep. 279 Disputio: A Real-World Application of Voluntary Dispute Resolution

  Přemysl Bosák encountered the ideas of voluntary law and decided to launch an online dispute resolution system. He gives his background and then explains his vision for Disputio.

  
• 06.24.2023

  Ep. 278 Murphy on Reparations, SuperAI, and Investment Implications

  This episode is a re-broadcast of Bob's talk given at George Gammon's Rebel Capitalist Live event held in May 2023 in Orlando. He covered the case for reparations, the threat from SuperAI, and investment implications.

  
• 06.21.2023

  Ep. 277 Lawrence Ludlow on Romans 13 Being Spiritual not Political

  Lawrence Ludlow has an MA in medieval studies and gives Bob numerous lines of evidence to suggest that Paul in Romans 13 is referring to spiritual authorities rather than political ones. In this interpretation, there is no tension between the...

  
• 06.10.2023

  Ep. 276 Even Milton Friedman Slipped in His Defense of Trade Deficits

  Bob uses the illustrious Milton Friedman to demonstrate a depressing tendency among economists to overreact in their zeal to defend trade deficits, where they end up arguing that it's necessarily beneficial to live beyond one's means. Although this could be...

  
• 06.01.2023

  Ep. 275 Why the SuperAIs Won't Steal Our Jobs or Slaughter Us, Part 2

  Bob uses comparative advantage to to argue that human workers will always find a place in the economy, regardless of how productive super-AI systems may become. He then addresses the fear that superAIs will simply rearrange our molecules for building...

  
• 05.26.2023

  Ep. 274 Why the SuperAIs Won't Steal Our Jobs or Slaughter Us, Part 1

  Bob uses basic economics to argue that human workers will always find a place in the economy, regardless of how productive super-AI systems may become.

  
• 05.24.2023

  Ep. 273 The Austrian Theory of Interest, Current and Future

  For a chapter in Per Bylund's new collection, Bob explained the pure time preference theory (PTPT) of interest, and then offered suggestions for future work on an Austrian theory of interest. He summarizes his chapter in this episode.

  
• 05.19.2023

  Ep. 272 More on Voluntary Law, and Comments on the Open Borders Controversy

  Bob elaborates on law enforcement in a voluntary society, and then offers commentary on Dave Smith's Twitter feuds regarding Open Borders.

  
• 05.17.2023

  Ep. 271 The Economics of Reparations and the Danger of AI

  Bob first explains his long-held position on the economics of slavery and reparations, and then applies it to the debate over the danger of superintelligent machines.

  
• 05.12.2023

  Ep. 270 Introducing infineo Marrying Whole Life with Blockchain Technology

  Bob officially describes his new role as Chief Economist with infineo. He first explains the mechanics of Whole Life insurance policies and their use as cash management vehicles. Then Bob summarizes the first infineo whitepaper, which explains the $SOUND token,...

  
• 05.10.2023

  Ep. 269 Responding to Sam Seder on Private Law

  Bob goes through a Sam Seder episode to explain how a voluntary society could provide a rule of law.

  
• 04.29.2023

  Ep. 268 Daniel Miller on Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union

  Daniel Miller is president of the Texas Nationalist Movement and author of TEXIT: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union. Bob and Daniel have a lively discussion where they cover the realistic prospects for Texas independence, lessons from history,...