Jonathan Newman

Jonathan Newman is Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at Bryan College. He earned his PhD at Auburn University and is a Mises Institute Fellow.

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No, We Haven’t Drained the Earth’s Resources

The Environment

Blog08/01/2018Jonathan Newman

Thanks to markets, living standards continue to go up globally, although many predicted that the earth was going to run out of resources decades ago.

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Who Is Henry Hazlitt?

BiographiesHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

07/24/2018Audio/VideoJonathan Newman

Jonathan Newman discusses the contributions of Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993), the brilliant popularizer of sound economics.

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3 Ways the Critics Get Praxeology Wrong

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

02/26/2018Audio/VideoJonathan Newman

Many critics of Mises are attacking a caricature of what Mises called praxeology — which is simply logic applied to human choice, or action.

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Jordan Peterson and Human Action

Praxeology

Blog02/14/2018Jonathan Newman

There are many similarities between the action framework presented by Jordan Peterson and that of Mises and Rothbard.

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Ikigai: Meaning and Purpose in Life

Entrepreneurship

02/09/2018Power & MarketJonathan Newman

We all strive for satisfaction and purpose in our lives. We want to do what we love, love what we do, and do it well enough to pay bills and buy groceries. The Japanese have a word for this “sweet spot”: Ikigai, which translates to “a reason for being”. Artists have rendered the overlapping...