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Murphy on Economic Philosophy

May 23 2025

Jon Murphy

Tariffs as Part of An Optimal Tax System

May 21 2025

Jon Murphy

The Importance of Theory: Trade, Jobs, and Wages

May 15 2025

Jon Murphy

Why I love Imperfect Competition

May 13 2025

Jon Murphy

Some Hidden Costs of Tariffs

May 9 2025

Jon Murphy

Is A Negative Net International Investment Position Cause for Concern?

May 7 2025

Jon Murphy

Zoltraak: Competition versus Stagnation

May 2 2025

Jon Murphy

It's Even Better Than A Consumption Surplus

May 1 2025

Jon Murphy

Adam Smith Definitely Would Not Approve

Apr 25 2025

Jon Murphy

Silver Linings and Green Clouds

Apr 23 2025

Jon Murphy

What is the Role of the Expert?

Apr 18 2025

Jon Murphy

Colloquial Law

Apr 16 2025

Jon Murphy

An Economic Argument for Mercy

Apr 11 2025

Jon Murphy

The Reason of Rules: Uncertainty is the Growth Killer

Apr 8 2025

Jon Murphy

On the “Reciprocal” Tariff Plan

Apr 6 2025

Jon Murphy

International Trade Exam Question

Apr 4 2025

Jon Murphy

The Second Law of Demand and Supply in Action

Apr 3 2025

Jon Murphy

The Joy of Freedom in the Digital Age

Apr 1 2025

Jon Murphy

Trade Deficits Cannot be “Managed”

Mar 26 2025

Jon Murphy

Why Methodological Cosmopolitanism?

Mar 25 2025

Jon Murphy

Tariffs and Inflation

Mar 21 2025

Jon Murphy

My Talk at UW - Superior

Mar 20 2025

Jon Murphy

Good Goals, Poor Implementation

Mar 19 2025

Jon Murphy

Trade War Fears

Mar 12 2025

Jon Murphy

Authoritarianism: A Deal with the Devil

Mar 7 2025

Jon Murphy

The Political Problem of Tariffs

Feb 26 2025

Jon Murphy

What Makes International Trade Unique: Politics

Feb 20 2025

Jon Murphy

What We Owe Each Other

Feb 14 2025

Jon Murphy

Will Tariffs Lower Prices?

Feb 4 2025

Jon Murphy

A Stormy Celebration of Globalization

Jan 28 2025

Jon Murphy

Confusions About Collectives

Jan 14 2025

Jon Murphy

Concerns About Tariffs

Jan 2 2025

Jon Murphy

Whose prices rise with tariffs?

Dec 18 2024

Jon Murphy

What Deindustrialization?

Dec 5 2024

Jon Murphy

Dungeons, Dragons, and Monopolies

Nov 27 2024

Jon Murphy

The Tail Wags the Dog

Nov 20 2024

Jon Murphy

The Problem With Economic Planning

Nov 7 2024

Jon Murphy

Price Controls with Fixed Supply

Oct 24 2024

Jon Murphy

Trade and Wages

Oct 3 2024

Jon Murphy

Why I Write

Sep 17 2024

Jon Murphy

On Pigouvian Taxes: A Reply to Scott Sumner

Sep 13 2024

Jon Murphy

Supply Chains and Protectionism

Sep 4 2024

Jon Murphy

The Seen and the Unseen

Aug 21 2024

Jon Murphy

On the Optimal Tariff and the Law of Demand

Aug 2 2024

Jon Murphy

A Nationalist Argument Against Protectionist Tariffs

Jul 31 2024

Jon Murphy

Why I am Skeptical of Market Failure Corrections

Jul 17 2024

Jon Murphy

Tariffs, Deficits, and Debt

Jul 5 2024

Jon Murphy

Reasoning from a Price Change: Trade Edition

Jun 18 2024

Jon Murphy

The Law and Economics

Jun 9 2024

Jon Murphy

Beneath the Mask

May 18 2024

Jon Murphy

Why the Status Quo Matters

Apr 17 2024

Jon Murphy

Does Protectionism Protect?

Mar 24 2024

Jon Murphy

Questions for Interventionists

Feb 7 2024

Jon Murphy

Confusions About Comparative Advantage

Feb 1 2024

Jon Murphy

Is Protectionism a Dead Letter?

Dec 28 2023

Jon Murphy

Costs and the Entrepreneurial Mindset

Dec 1 2023

Jon Murphy

The FTC’s Confused Case Against Amazon

Oct 27 2023

Jon Murphy

Today’s Onerous is Yesterday’s Luxury

Oct 6 2023

Jon Murphy

Productivity and Work From Home: A Response to Arnold Kling

Jun 24 2023

Jon Murphy

Public Externalities, Private Solutions

Sep 12 2022

Jon Murphy

Laws, Theories, and Norms

Aug 21 2022

Jon Murphy

What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?

Aug 7 2022

Jon Murphy

Valuable Service or Exploitation?

Jul 2 2022

Jon Murphy

That Which is Unseen: Rental Housing Edition

May 31 2022

Jon Murphy

Tacit Assumptions and Expert Failure: A Personal Story

Mar 27 2022

Jon Murphy

Revisiting the Case for Free Trade

Feb 27 2022

Jon Murphy

Do Current Wages Disprove the Econ 101 Case Against Minimum Wage?

Sep 6 2021

Jon Murphy

The Game of Telephone: The Knowledge Problem in Regulation

Feb 25 2021

Jon Murphy

The Role of Sympathy in Policy

Aug 30 2020

Jon Murphy

Who Chooses? A Short Appreciation of Cost and Choice

Dec 25 2019

Jon Murphy

Morality and ECON 101

Sep 10 2019