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Professor Jonathan Newman joins the show to discuss exchange and prices through the lens of Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State ( chapters 2–4 ). This is vintage Rothbard: precise definitions; hardcore explanations of property, prices, and exchange; the problems of “hegemonic” state violence;  and a “beautiful” (per Dr. Newman) conception of social

We continue our look at Murray Rothbard’s two volume An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought with a show focused on Adam Smith. Rothbard attacked him mercilessly as a plagiarist who set economic theory back decades with his muddled views on value and price. But was this criticism justified, or was Smith actually an early and

Professor Jonathan Newman joins the show for a look at America’s Great Depression , Rothbard’s classic explanation of a terrible period in US history. This book provides one of the best short surveys of Austrian business cycle theory, along with deep history surrounding the inflationary run-up of the 1920s and the disastrous mistakes made by the

Mises Institute Fellow Jonathan Newman, author of the article “Neil Ty, the Scientism Guy”, joins Jeff to discuss the recent March for Science—and how politicized pseudoscience peddled by the likes of Bill Nye silences debate and drives dubious public

This weekend, we continue our series featuring some of the young scholars who are spending their summer here at the Mises Institute as summer fellows. One of these young scholars is Jonathan Newman, who is working on a PhD in Economics just across the street from us at Auburn University. Jonathan is not only a thoroughly Austrian scholar, but he