Contra Krugman, episode 140.

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 Kruikman.

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

It's time for Contra Krugman.

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Hi, everybody. Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman, and we are joined today

as we are very, very infrequently by a special guest. And today's guest is Paul Godfrey,

who is a professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College, holds a PhD

in history from Yale University, the author of many books, including fascism, the career of a concept.

And given the subject matter of Krugman's column, I thought Paul's expertise as a European historian and scholar

and indeed commentator on current events would be helpful.

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