Patrick Newman

Articles

02/24/2025 The Misesian Patrick Newman

The US government has long pushed to establish government-sponsored cartels and monopolies that weakened free-market competition and enriched incumbent businesses, unions, and other interest groups.

Book Review: Surprised Again! The COVID Crises and the New Market Bubble

05/15/2024 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Patrick Newman

Surprised Again! by Mises Institute senior fellow Alex J. Pollock and Howard B. Adler tells this story of the COVID recession.

Book Review: Slouching towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

05/20/2024 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Patrick Newman

Brad DeLong’s 600-page tome admirably aims to provide the grand narrative of economic growth in the United States and the rest of the world from 1870 to 2010. However, afflicted with numerous problems, it ultimately proves to be a disappointment.

Publications

Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

08/17/2021 Patrick Newman

From the Introduction to Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849. The present book is an economic and political history of early America, describing government policies and their effects on marketplace activity. In particular, it

Review of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein

09/13/2016 Patrick Newman

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) “The problem with economic historians,” Murray Rothbard once quipped, “is that half of them are historians who don’t know any economics and the other half are economists who don’t know

Review of Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic, and Political Relationships, Second Edition by Peter Bernholz

09/12/2016 Patrick Newman

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) The recent financial crisis of 2007–2008 generated a debate among economists over whether the leading central banks’ unprecedented monetary intervention would spark a massive inflation

Media

The Marshall Plan Slush Fund: Cronyism for US Exporters

05/16/2025 Patrick Newman

Did the Marshall Plan save Europe or enrich crony capitalists? Patrick Newman discusses how corporate welfare, hidden deals, and corruption shaped postwar policy, with effects still felt today.

Even the Inventor of GDP Statistics Knew Government Spending Was Dubious

03/30/2025 Robert P. Murphy Patrick Newman

Patrick Newman joins Bob to discuss Simon Kuznets’ role in developing GNP and GDP metrics and Kuznets’ concerns over how government spending is accounted for in economic statistics.

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.

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