Contra Krugman, episode 122.

Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman.

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.

It's time for Contra Krugman.

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Hello everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman, but boy, is this an easy one for me?

There's no column to summarize because looking at this week, it was a column on social spending,

which wound up being a column on, you guess it, health care spending.

And Bob, what was the other one we hated? What was it on?

I've expunged it from my memory. It was so hateful. We just said, ah, it was so ridiculous. This is just partisanship. And we're trying to do economics here.

We're scientists here, as Bob would say. So even though Krugman does not want to bring enlightenment to the masses this particular week, we're going to bring some anyway.

And what we're going to do this week is an idea I came up with.

So if it goes well, give me the credit, and if it goes terribly, you can blame me.

But I thought we would have Bob talk a bit about

Keynesianism, but specifically about different kinds of Keynesianism, or how Keynesianism has

evolved and changed over the years, and the extent to which there's a diversity of thought

among Keynesians, are there different Keynesian schools? And if so, how do they differ from each other?

And are any of them better than any of the others? And where would we place Krugman? So this, you guys are

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