Ep. 222 Why Won't We Listen to the Experts?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Krugman is unhappy that the "right wing" is more apt to listen to people he considers quacks than to people he considers experts, and he says the COVID-19 problem is yet another example. We are unconvinced.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 222. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.3 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:15.0 | arrows of Kruikman. |
| 0:16.2 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:20.2 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey folks, crazy times are upon us, and that's why, if you haven't done so already, I would |
| 0:30.0 | encourage you to check out the Laura Murphy Report. This is going to be the outlet where I can |
| 0:35.2 | do my deepest dives and do the economics of all the crazy stuff |
| 0:39.1 | that's going down. To look at sample issues and to see how you can subscribe, go to contra krugman.com |
| 0:45.6 | slash L.M.R. Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. I couldn't |
| 0:52.3 | be more delighted, indeed, to welcome to the program. |
| 0:56.4 | Robert P. Murphy, who holds a PhD in economics from New York University, is a prolific author, |
| 1:01.7 | knows a lot about Krookman, has been known to be featured on Contra Krugman now and again, |
| 1:06.8 | and I'm delighted to have him back. Now, I'm being playful with Bob, but he actually has some |
| 1:12.3 | great news. Bob was absent from Contra Krugman for a perfectly good reason, very honorable reason. |
| 1:20.9 | He and his wife welcomed a son into the world very recently, which is why I did an episode by |
| 1:27.2 | myself. I did one with Richard |
| 1:29.2 | Ebeling, but now we got Bob back. Bob, congratulations, and welcome back. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.2 | This is kind of like, you know, your favorite TV show when a character from previous seasons |
| 1:37.8 | comes back and it's a nice pleasant surprise. Right, and you know that the main reason that that |
| 1:42.1 | character comes back is that the show is having really low ratings and they're desperate to do something. |
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