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Contra Krugman

Ep. 158 How to Be Elegant When Smashing Your Enemies With a Sledgehammer

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7822 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bob and Tom discuss the work of Bob's favorite economist, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Böhm-Bawerk refuted many an economic fallacy in his day, including Marxism itself. We discuss the arguments he made as well as how he made them.

Show notes for Ep. 158

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0:00.0

Contra Krugman, episode 158.

0:05.5

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

0:10.2

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

0:16.1

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

0:20.2

It's time for Contra Krugman.

0:24.3

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0:38.7

Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with yet another episode of Contra Krugman, and we're

0:42.8

in especially good spirits because we've just received back the beautiful shirt design

0:48.3

for this year's Contra Cruise.

0:50.3

It is a Pirates of the Caribbean theme.

0:53.4

Bob and I are triumphant pirates aboard the ship, and we're looking down, I wouldn't say quite with pity. That's not how I would describe it. Contempt, maybe, at Krugman, who's in this wooden ship that's the side is punctured and water's coming out of it, and he's sinking he's got his hands up and we're all pirates and it's just great.

1:14.0

It's just a tremendous design.

1:16.4

So those of you coming, you're going to get that shirt.

1:19.6

And those of you who haven't yet signed up because I know you're just about to, you're saying, yeah, it's a little late, but I could still swing it.

1:25.6

You're going to get that beautiful shirt. Yeah, I'm sure there were people holding out thinking, well, I want to see, what's the

1:31.1

T-shirt design this time around? And now you know, it's even better than you could have dreamed.

1:35.2

So contracruise.com is where to go. Today, Bob and I are going to do another episode in which

1:41.6

we take a topic suggested by an early bird registrant for the Contra

1:46.8

Cruz. In this case, our friend Laura Blodgett, who has been a guest on my own podcast,

1:51.7

and she wanted us to talk about the economist Oigin von Bombavark, who tends to get kind of left

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