This guide is based on Jonathan Newman’s fall 2023 Mises Book Club discussions of Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto.
Dr. Jonathan Newman is a Fellow at the Mises Institute. He earned his PhD at Auburn University while a Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. He was the recipient of the 2021 Gary G. Schlarbaum Award to a Promising Young Scholar for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at Bryan College. He has published in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and in volumes edited by Matthew McCaffrey and Per Bylund. His research focuses on Austrian economics, inflation and business cycles, and the history of economic thought. He has taught courses on Macroeconomics and Quantitative Economics: Uses and Limitations in the Mises Graduate School. He is the author of three children’s books: The Broken Window, Ludwig the Builder, and The Magic Coin. His commentary appears regularly in the Mises Wire and Power & Market.
The engineer and the gambler both face uncertainty, but only one can control the forces involved. Jonathan Newman explores the gap between plan and outcome that drives all economic life.
Ryan McMaken, Jonathan Newman, and Joshua Mawhorter of the Mises Institute take a look at the politics of "fedspeak" and what officials at the Federal Reserve really mean when they say they're going to fix the Fed.
Jonathan Newman was present as one of the Federal Reserve governors gave a talk and was able to ask questions. It seems there is not much behind the Fed’s technocratic veneer.
