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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

The Race/Starting-Point Fallacy

04/25/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

One of the most difficult fallacies to recognize, define, and combat is that of a false analogy—two things may share some similarities and are assumed to be alike in other respects without sufficient...

Tariffs Mean Lost Jobs

04/18/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

It is not uncommon to hear people make the one-sided case for a minimum wage policy by arguing that a minimum wage ought to be implemented so that people get paid more. To be fair, there is some truth...

A Review of Some GDP Problems

04/11/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

There has been some recent discussion again regarding the usefulness, limits, and problems of the well-known Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measure, which is often presented as a measurement of economic...

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Media

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.

Slavery—Cronyism, Opportunity Cost, and Deadweight Loss

01/15/2025 Joshua Mawhorter

A modern misconception of antebellum slavery is that it “built the country.” Actually, the institution of slavery, economically speaking, was a deadweight loss to the US economy.

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