Ep. 88 Krugman: Free Markets Are the Real Road to Serfdom!
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week Krugman complains that workers are becoming less free: Obamacare is in danger of repeal, and more and more workers are being required to sign noncompete agreements. These things limit people's choices, says Krugman, so in a very real sense they are being made less free. Is any of this true, and is Krugman's understanding of freedom coherent? This is all especially good fodder for Contra Krugman.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 88. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruigman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.7 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.4 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.6 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.6 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
| 0:23.7 | Folks, chances are in your Facebook feed. |
| 0:26.2 | You've got people telling you that you want children to die because you oppose Obamacare. |
| 0:31.1 | Why don't you know it saves 36,000 lives per year? |
| 0:35.4 | Smash all this nonsense with my free e-book, Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong |
| 0:41.2 | About Healthcare. Pick it up at your friends are wrong.com. Hey everybody, Bob Murphy here. When I'm not |
| 0:48.9 | heroically standing up to Paul Kroobin's antics, I also work at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, |
| 0:55.8 | especially for you undergrads out there. If you're considering getting a PhD in economics, |
| 1:00.1 | check on our program. We have funding. It's the Free Market Institute, |
| 1:05.4 | www.fm.fm.t.u.t.u.t.ut u.edu. |
| 1:12.4 | Hey everybody. Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:16.3 | No live audience this time, so it's a bit of a downer. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, I have invited people from my building to come in and just sit here and watch quietly. |
| 1:24.1 | Anybody from Panera Bread keep in touch with you from all those times? |
| 1:28.3 | You know, I thought we had a bond and no, I haven't heard from those people at all not a thing yeah not a thing all right |
| 1:32.1 | we're not saying don't eat it Panera bread we're just saying just keep in mind what Bob's |
| 1:36.8 | experience was well all the same we have another column to talk to you folks about today and the |
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