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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

Skin Tone Products, Markets, and “White Privilege”

03/28/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

The first time I read about “white privilege” in college was on a Blackboard assigned readings list. This was not a class I attended, but had access to in order to provide some help to the professor...

The Tariff and Income Tax Toggle

03/21/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

Much has been written recently on Trump’s statements regarding tariffs and even his idea to replace income tax with tariffs. Writings have tackled the economic destructiveness of tariffs, how they...

Lincoln’s New Deal

03/14/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

In Frank W. Taussig’s The Tariff History of the United States, he describes the mass of unprecedented financial legislation that took place, which likely would not have occurred absent the context of...

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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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