Over 100 people like deconstructing NYT economist Paul Krugman's arguments so much, they went on a 7-day cruise dedicated to it
- Over 100 fans of the podcast Contra Krugman, which rebuts arguments made by the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, went on a seven-day cruise, Bloomberg's Lizzie O'Leary reported.
- The cruise took place on Celebrity Cruises' Celebrity Solstice ship and reportedly featured seminars, debates, and games centered around Libertarianism.
- Krugman has been a columnist for The New York Times since 1999 and won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008.
- The Contra Krugman podcast debuted in 2015 and is hosted by Robert Murphy, a research assistant professor at Texas Tech University's Free Market Institute, and Tom Woods, a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
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Over 100 fans of the podcast Contra Krugman, which rebuts arguments made by the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, went on a seven-day cruise, Bloomberg's Lizzie O'Leary reported.
The cruise took place on Celebrity Cruises' Celebrity Solstice ship and reportedly featured seminars, debates, and games centered around libertarianism. The games included libertarian-themed versions of Pictionary and Family Feud, according to Bloomberg's report.
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At one point, a passenger reportedly performed an interpolation of the Linda Ronstadt song "You're No Good" titled, "Krugman, You're So Wrong."
O'Leary recounts the following exchange during a round of libertarian-themed Family Feud.
Krugman has been a columnist for The New York Times since 1999 and won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008 for his work on international trade and economic geography.
The Contra Krugman podcast debuted in 2015 and is hosted by Robert Murphy, a research assistant professor at Texas Tech University's Free Market Institute, and Tom Woods, a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. The fifth "Contra Cruise" will take place next October.