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Joshua Mawhorter

Joshua Mawhorter is assistant editor of Mises.org. He was a summer fellow at the Mises Institute (2023) and a government/economics and US history teacher since 2016. Josh has a bachelor’s degree in political science from California State University, Bakersfield, a master’s in political science from Southern New Hampshire University, and a master’s in Austrian economics from the Mises Graduate School (2023). He has self-published a few books, including The First Constitution: The Articles of Confederation, Tyrannosaurus Debt: The Student Loan Crisis and How to Survive, and “An Austrian Critique of Modern Monetary Theory”, his thesis. He also enjoys teaching in the areas of theology, the Old Testament, church history, apologetics, and philosophy.

Articles

Energy Holodomor

06/06/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

All Americans have heard of the Holocaust, but far fewer have heard of the Holodomor—the man-made terror famine perpetrated against Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of people. The...

The Tobacco Standard in Colonial America

05/30/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

One cannot study the history of colonial America, especially Virginia, without realizing the significance of tobacco. In 1612, John Rolfe was the first in Jamestown to grow marketable tobacco after...

MMT and US History: Redefining Chartalism

05/23/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

The United States is MMT’s monetary sovereign par excellence. Because the US is arguably the place in which MMT might be said to have the “best chance” of working, it is MMT’s favorite example to...

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Media

MMT and US History: Redefining Chartalism

05/23/2025 Joshua Mawhorter

MMT uses chartalism and a few dubious examples to appeal to history to establish the theory‘s authority and validity, only to discard this element as irrelevant and unnecessary.

Anti-MMT Panel

03/25/2025 Per Bylund Lucas M. Engelhardt Joshua Mawhorter Jonathan Newman Patrick Newman Joseph T. Salerno

This panel exposes flawed assumptions of Modern Monetary Theory, including the origins of money, government spending, job guarantees, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.

The State Isn’t Santa Claus, It’s the Grinch!

02/08/2025 Joshua Mawhorter

Like Santa, who gives free gifts to our children, people think of the state as providing services “for free.” However, the state cannot provide anything without first confiscating wealth from others—like the Grinch, who first stole all the presents in Whoville.

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