Jonathan Newman: Inflation and Business Cycles

Tags: Booms and Busts, The Entrepreneur, Money and Banks

06/19/2015 Jonathan Newman Jeff Deist

This weekend, we continue our series featuring some of the young scholars who are spending their summer here at the Mises Institute as summer fellows. One of these young scholars is Jonathan Newman, who is working on a PhD in Economics just across the street from us at Auburn University. Jonathan is not only a thoroughly Austrian scholar, but he is also an excellent teacher. He is concerned about his students—he cares about them—and he cares about being an effective instructor, unlike so many young people who seem to go into academia just to publish. We thought you would enjoy hearing Jonathan teach some high school students on the subject of inflation.

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