Ep. 202 “What Did Bob Learn?” Part 1 of 3
In response to a listener request, Bob starts a 3-part series explaining areas where his views have changed. In this episode, he covers trade deficits, justice vs. mercy, the 2000 election, WMDs in Iraq, and Arrow’s Theorem.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- Bob’s article on why free traders should be more careful when defending trade deficits.
- Bob’s article explaining the capital account in reference to trade deficits, in the context of criticizing Peter Schiff. Then Bob’s mea culpa.
- Bob’s article on Robert Mundell.
- BMS episode explaining Arrow’s Theorem.
- Steve Landsburg’s The Armchair Economist. #Commissions Earned (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)
- Bob’s link for Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom (which features a lecture on Arrow’s Theorem).
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
The audio production for this episode was provided by Podsworth Media.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
This is a solid concept for a series. Even if I’m well informed on all sides in a given topic, learning more about the personal emotional resonance of the various aspects of those arguments is just as important. Persuasion is such a messy business with near infinite nuance, that I never get tired of the “how I got here” stories.
This was worth a relisten. It’s so helpful to see how one can fixate on one true conclusion about a situation (trade deficit), but that can obscure some other true things. The analogy of the person going into too much debt was very helpful to me.