Ep. 6 Enough About Denmark Already: Here's What Krugman and Sanders Left Out
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Is Denmark a good model for the United States? Krugman thinks so, and claims the large welfare state there, combined with that country's prosperity, disproves free-market claims about the impoverishing effects of heavy government spending and intervention. To make his case, Krugman has to contradict his own textbook from six years ago. It isn't pretty, folks.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, Episode 6. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.1 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.8 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:16.0 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:20.0 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:24.0 | A lot of our listeners would love to master Austrian economics and learn real history, |
| 0:28.9 | but they don't have the time, and even if they did, how would they know where to start? |
| 0:33.6 | Well, check out Liberty Classroom.com to learn the history and economics we didn't get in school. |
| 0:39.9 | Did you know Bob Murphy has his own financial publication? I bet you didn't. It's the Lara |
| 0:45.9 | Murphy Report, co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara. Check it out at contra Krugman.com |
| 0:52.9 | slash LMR. Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman.com slash LMR.R. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 0:57.9 | We're talking about Denmark this week, and I know you think to yourselves, of all the people on earth I would look to for commentary on Denmark, it's got to be Bob Murphy and Tom Woods. |
| 1:09.3 | Bob, I'm so glad you're with me here today. |
| 1:11.3 | We've been brushing up on our Danish. |
| 1:13.7 | We're going to talk about Denmark today. |
| 1:15.5 | That's right. |
| 1:15.8 | Well, I had a Danish for breakfast. |
| 1:17.4 | I figured this. |
| 1:19.4 | I handed you that one. |
| 1:20.8 | Handed you that one on a silver platter. |
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