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Robert P. Murphy

Robert P. Murphy is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute. He is the author of numerous books: Contra Krugman: Smashing the Errors of America’s Most Famous Keynesian; Chaos Theory; Lessons for the Young Economist; Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action; The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism; Understanding Bitcoin (with Silas Barta), among others. He is also host of The Human Action Podcast and The Bob Murphy Show.

Media

Patrick Newman on the Rise of the Corporatist State

Robert P. Murphy|Patrick Newman
Why Mises Thought Fractional Reserve Banking Caused the Boom-Bust Cycle

Robert P. Murphy
Rothbard vs. the Free Bankers

Robert P. Murphy
Keith Knight’s Top Ten Problems with Democratic Socialism

Robert P. Murphy|Keith Knight
Why Is the Healthcare System Broken? Speaker Panel

Ryan McMaken|Timothy D. Terrell|Charles Sauer|Robert P. Murphy|Connor O'Keeffe
How to Fix the Economics of Healthcare

Robert P. Murphy
Does the Free Market Naturally Lead to Price Deflation?

Robert P. Murphy
Greenspan’s Legacy: Did the Fed Cause the Housing Bubble?

Robert P. Murphy
Slavery Was Propped Up by Government: A Misesian Analysis

Robert P. Murphy
From 2008 to the Coming Reset: Larry Lepard’s Case for Sound Money

Robert P. Murphy|Lawrence Lepard
A Harvard Economist Tests Austrian Capital Theory

Robert P. Murphy|Pol Antràs
The Fed’s Real Job: Propping Up Dollar Reserve Currency Status

Robert P. Murphy|Joshua Hendrickson|Alexander Salter

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Articles

The Inverted Yield Curve, Austrian Business Cycle Theory, and the True Money Supply

12/15/2021 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Ryan Griggs Robert P. Murphy

Griggs and Murphy show that the Rothbard-Salerno measure of the “true money supply” tracks Treasury bond spreads well, supporting the Austrian business cycle theory’s explanation of yield curve predictive power.

Book Review: The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect

01/10/2022 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Robert P. Murphy

Robert Murphy reviews Earle and Luther’s The Gold Standard, finding it a balanced and useful defense of an underappreciated monetary institution.

Putting the Economics Back in Christmas

12/25/2025 Mises Daily Robert P. Murphy

Consumer spending does not drive the economy. On the contrary, saving, investment, and entrepreneurship are the critical components of economic growth.

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Publications

Understanding Money Mechanics

Robert P. Murphy

The Understanding Money Mechanics series by Robert P. Murphy, is a comprehensive overview of the theory, history, and practice of money and banking, with a focus on the United States. The complete book is available both as an html and a pdf.

Understanding Money Mechanics

12/08/2021 Robert P. Murphy

This book provides the intelligent layperson with a concise yet comprehensive overview of the theory, history, and practice of money and banking, with a focus on the United States. Although the author considers himself an Austrian school economist

The Sizzle of Economic Freedom

08/30/2018 Robert P. Murphy Lawrence J. McQuillan

Freedom lovers have long tried to win converts — and especially voters — by appealing to first principles of classical liberalism embraced by the Founding Fathers: above all, the inalienable right of an individual to chart the course of his own life

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