Summary:

Conservatives and libertarians tend to look back at the 17th and 18th centuries as limited government, free market utopias. Patrick Newman shatters that myth with his latest book, Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849.

Guest Bio:

Patrick Newman is an assistant professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the editor of Murray Rothbard's The Progressive Era (2017) and Conceived in Liberty, Volume V: The New Republic, 1784-1791 (2019). He is the author of Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849 (2021).

Guest Links:

Twitter: @drpatricknewman

Patrick’s Mises Institute Profile

Additional Reading:

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

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic

The Progressive Era

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