Ep. 83 Why All the Talk About Manufacturing? Don't All Jobs Matter?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Krugman (correctly) wonders about all the emphasis on manufacturing employment, when many other perfectly honorable lines of work have also witnessed declines. Why the emphasis on manufacturing? Why, because white people tend to hold those jobs, says Krugman. What a surprise....
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 83. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.8 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.5 | arrows of Krukman. |
| 0:15.7 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.7 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
| 0:23.8 | Folks, we're capitalists on this show and we're not ashamed of that. |
| 0:27.3 | And one of the easiest places to be a capitalist is on the internet. |
| 0:31.8 | So, for example, if you've got a website and you're not monetizing it, then you're a schmuck. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm going to show you what I'm doing exactly |
| 0:38.5 | step by step in this free ebook, Five Paths to an Online Income. Check it out at |
| 0:44.4 | paths to income.com. Hey, everybody, Bob Murphy here. When I'm not heroically standing up to Paul |
| 0:50.7 | Kroobin's antics, I also work at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech |
| 0:55.2 | University, especially for you undergrads out there. If you're considering getting a Ph.D. |
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| 1:12.9 | Hey everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:16.2 | And today we got an interesting column because some of what he says, there's no arguing with. |
| 1:22.6 | And other things, you just want to ring his neck. |
| 1:25.0 | Of course, in a literary way. |
| 1:27.0 | That's what we mean here on |
| 1:28.8 | Contra Krugman. Bob, we have an event that we are part of that's coming up very soon that we have |
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