Stoke the Fear

An up-and-coming Austrian School economist begins training for his shot at the Keynesian champ.
To see the short video explaining the Murphy-Krugman debate challenge, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cFXRF...
To make your pledge to the campaign, go to:
http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/cam...
To see Murphy's song about Krugman, check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdhKM...
And if you actually want to see some Austrian vs. Keynesian economics, try:
http://mises.org/daily/4682

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  Comedy

[Orenstein123]

THIS IS FUCKING EPIC!! Why haven't I seen this before?

[PeaceRequiresAnarchy]

I just saw this for the first time today. No wonder Krugman isn't accepting the debate. He must feel intimidated.

[Andres Rioseco]

ahahaha WTF..Bob must've been a comedian in a prior life. hahaha awesome...Krugman is a chicken s&%t. Go bob

[huntsails]

hahahahaha

[Epistemophilos]

Robert P. Murphy, you are one big ball of furry awesomeness!!!

[smashfascismnow]

How i feel when watching this shit:

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[anjonroy]

To be honest, the Steve Keen vs Paul Krugman debate would be quite a bit more interesting. They were in a big "shootout" last spring on monetary policy, and things have fired back up again a bit between them. I would love to see them go at it in the main event. Maybe we can schedule Bob against somebody else like, perhaps market monetarist Scott Sumner, in the under-card.

[ssmith5342]

Some freedoms have to be sacrificed for the greater good. If I don't honor a contract that I enter into with someone, someone has to step in to limit my freedom to honor that contract. The Austrian school of thought is idealistic structureless claptrap. Forming collectives and governments is just what humans do. To stop them from doing that would require the formation of another government. The main arguments of the Austrians are utter nonsense.

[ssmith5342]

Individuals cannot exist without society.  Like I said, all of us for the first 15 to 20 or so years of our lives are reliant on parents to give us food, shelter, and protection from harm. They can both restrict our freedoms but also protect and enable our future freedoms as individuals. The ideal society protects and enables individual freedoms and keeps people from using their freedom to impinge on another's freedom. In so doing it has to justifiably restricts some freedoms.

[michelle holcroft]

Your attacking a straw man by saying austrians/ancaps completely despise and type of collective. We state that an INDIVIDUAL'S rights are more important than SOCIETY'S rights. Society cannot exist without individuals. But individuals are capable of living without society. The point is is that everyone's natural rights should be protected, and not at the expense of anyone. That is why democracy is a very flawed system. A free contactual society based on the non aggresion principle is superior.

[ssmith5342]

A collective of people upon whose existence individuals' existences are contingent. Society exists. We don't raise ourselves as children.

[michelle holcroft]

Define society