• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

No Wonder Krugman Won’t Debate Murphy

Watch economist Robert Murphy take apart Paul Krugman. Oh, wait, you can also see him do it here. And here. And here he hits another Keynesian. In this piece, Murphy writes: “In this short commentary, Krugman has outdone himself. He manages to blend in a combination of (a) blatant, demonstrable falsehood, (b) misleading innuendo, (c) attacks on the motivations of those who disagree with him, and to top it off (d) a hypocritical implied criticism of the very policies he himself supported.” And here Murphy smacks down Krugman on the Fed and employment data.

And that’s just this week.

Now check out KrugmanDebate.com.

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  • Anonymous

    After his comment about alien invasions helping the economy I often wonder if Krugman is just making things up as he goes along.

  • Bob Murphy

    It’s all or nothing for me. Last week I actually considered giving up my Krugmania. But then someone convinced me I had to use my superpowers to help others.

  • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

    Does anyone have his new book? Buy it and throw it through a window it will help the economy. You’d need a pretty strong arm though it’s just a book.

  • Joel Poindexter

    I read an article in Time Magazine once, where Krugman told the interviewer that as a child, he liked reading scifi novels where the hero is a scientist who comes up with some magic formula to save the planet from aliens. Every time he mentions aliens I think to myself that he still hasn’t moved on from this boyhood fantasy of one day saving the world with a technocratic plan.

  • Joefromjerze

    With great power, comes great responsibility.

  • Anonymous

    Have you not heard of the broken window fallacy?  Burn it instead.  It will keep you warm and serves as a primitive source of entertainment.

  • http://www.facebook.com/einar.fridgeirsson Einar Árni Friðgeirsson

    The novels that Krugman was referring to were the Foundation series of Novels by Isaac Asimov.  Many of Asimov’s novels feature the kind of “hard” central planning social science musings that have hypnotized technocrats since the days of August Comte.  Sometimes the planning is done by mathematically advanced human experts, sometimes by artificial intelligences.

  • http://twitter.com/MooseOfReason Jeff

     I think Hadrick’s heard of Broken Windows.

  • jaffi411

    This is certainly one of Bob’s best takedowns.  He really nailed Krugman on this one.  Hey, 2.98 cheers from Dr. Salerno isn’t something that comes readily, but Bob got it.

  • Greg

    krugman’s paper on new economic geography is very good.

  • Anonymous

     He’s like Spiderman.

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    Translation: Bob nailed him on the issues we’re actually talking about.

  • http://TheInterventionistParadox.wordpress.com/ Bharat

    Chris was being satirical.

  • Anonymous

    So basically he is predisposed to like determinalism and thus why he likes these policies of inflation and cartelization?

  • Anonymous

    The trick is that Bob treats Krugman as though he actually believes strongly in what he writes or cares much about it.  If you look at Krugman as a mouthpiece for the corporate/government elite, somebody who’s paid to keep the chattering class intrigued with labyrinthine prose loosely connecting post-Keynesian thought droppings — I think he makes much more sense as the editorial-column counterpart to Greenspanian FedSpeak.

  • Jordan

     Yeah….

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote this. I must have been talking through my interpreter, Mr. Gentlemen Jack.