Phillip Magness

Independent Institute

100 Swan Way

Oakland, CA 94621

United States

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Scholarly Papers (31)

1.

Challenging the Empirical Contribution of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Journal of Private Enterprise, Spring 2015, GMU School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 15-2
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2015
Phillip Magness and Robert P. Murphy
Independent Institute and Institute for Energy Research
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Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century, Inequality

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The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 12 May 2020 Last Revised: 17 May 2023
Phillip Magness and Michael Makovi
Independent Institute and Northwood University
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Marx, Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, socialism, synthetic control

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A Comment the ‘New’ History of American Capitalism

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Aug 2019
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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Slavery, Capitalism, New History of Capitalism

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James M. Buchanan and the Political Economy of Desegregation

Southern Economic Journal, 2018
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2019
Phillip Magness, Art Carden and Vincent Geloso
Independent Institute, Brock School of Business, Samford University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Public Choice, James M. Buchanan, Segregation

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A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917 to 2020

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 23-30
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2023
Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Independent Institute
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Income inequality, data quality, Piketty, Saez, economic history

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Racial Determinism and Immigration in the Works of Ludwig von Mises

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2022
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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Immigration, Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberalism

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The Failures of Pandemic Central Planning

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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Public Choice, Covid, Imperial College

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How Pronounced Is the U-Curve? Revisiting Income Inequality in the United States, 1917-1945

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2018
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Independent Institute, Northwood University and University of Detroit MercyWayne State University
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Inequality, Top Incomes, US Economic History

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Buchanan the Evil Genius

Regulation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Art Carden and Phillip Magness
Brock School of Business, Samford University and Independent Institute
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James Buchanan, Public Choice, Democracy, political economy

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Coining Neoliberalism: Interwar Germany and the Neglected Origins of a Pejorative Moniker

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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Neoliberalism, Neoliberal, Mont Pelerin Society, Ludwig Von Mises

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The Economic Eugenicism of John Maynard Keynes

Journal of Markets and Morality, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Apr 2017
Phillip Magness and Sean Hernandez
Independent Institute and Independent
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John Maynard Keynes, Eugenics, Neo-Malthusianism

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Setting the Record Straight on 'Setting the Record Straight on the Libertarian South African Economist W.H. Hutt and James M. Buchanan'

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 23 Jun 2022
Phillip Magness and Art Carden
Independent Institute and Brock School of Business, Samford University
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James M. Buchanan, W.H. Hutt, Apartheid, White Supremacy

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John Maynard Keynes, H.G. Wells, and a Problematic Utopia

History of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2019
Phillip Magness and James Harrigan
Independent Institute and University of Arizona - College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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John Maynard Keynes, H.G. Wells, Eugenics

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Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Art Carden, Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
Brock School of Business, Samford University, George Mason University - Department of Economics and Independent Institute
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James M. Buchanan, Democracy, John C. Calhoun

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Inequality, Wealth Concentration, Economic History of the United Kingdom, Replication

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Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2023
Phillip Magness, Art Carden and Ilia Murtazashvili
Independent Institute, Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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Gordon Tullock, Slavery, cliometrics

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A Paradox of Secessionism: Slavery and the Confederate Security State

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2015
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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Civil War, Secession, Slavery

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Lincoln, Colonization, and Evidentiary Standards: A Response to Allen C. Guelzo

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 May 2013 Last Revised: 22 May 2013
Phillip Magness and Sebastian Page
Independent Institute and University of Oxford - Rothermere American Institute
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Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, colonization, slavery, emancipation, African-American history

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Contextomy, Eisegesis, and the Libertarian Calumny: Comment on Darity, Camara, and MacLean

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Jul 2023
Phillip Magness, Art Carden and Ilia Murtazashvili
Independent Institute, Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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W.H. Hutt, apartheid, racism, libertarianism, James M. Buchanan

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Trends in Income Inequality in the Interwar United States: Testing Reliability with State Income Tax Data

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 May 2017 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2019
Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Independent Institute
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Inequality, Top Incomes, US Economic History

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Why I am Not a Neoliberal

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Mar 2024
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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neoliberalism, Austrian economics, socialism, academia, Mont Pelerin Society

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Did Karl Marx Party in 1891? The Effect of SPD’s Erfurt Program on Karl Marx’s Citations

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2024
Phillip Magness and Michael Makovi
Independent Institute and Northwood University
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History of Economic Thought, Causal Inference, Synthetic Control, Karl Marx, Erfurt Program, Marginal Revolution, Socialism

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A Club to Beat Down the Tariff: The Political Economy of Tax Swaps and the Interest Group Origins of the 16th Amendment

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 May 2016 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2016
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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Income Tax, 16th Amendment, Rent Seeking, Tariffs, Protectionism, Constitutional Political Economy

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Social Justice, Public Goods and Rent-Seeking in Narratives

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Dec 2018
Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Independent Institute
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social justice, relational equality, open access order, rent-seeking

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The Bias Against Presidential Restraint

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Frank Garmon Jr., Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
Christopher Newport University - Department of Leadership and American Studies, George Mason University - Department of Economics and Independent Institute
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Presidential Studies, American History, American Politics, Divided Government

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The American System and the Political Economy of Black Colonization.

Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2014)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2018
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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colonization, American System, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Carey, Henry C. Carey

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The Problems with Piketty's Data

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Sep 2024
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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Market-Based Measurement for School Achievement

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Apr 2017
Chris Surprenant and Phillip Magness
University of New Orleans and Independent Institute
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School Choice

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A Comment on 'Modeling COVID-19 Scenarios for the United States'

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 10 Nov 2020
Phillip Magness
Independent Institute
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COVID-19, masks, pandemic, coronavirus

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Consumers’ Sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s Critique of the Color Bar

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Nov 2023
Phillip Magness, Art Carden and Ilia Murtazashvili
Independent Institute, Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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Humanomics, W.H. Hutt, Adam Smith, Consumers' Sovereignty, Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson, Deirdre McCloskey

31.

Slavery

It will appear in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice.
Number of pages: 21
Brock School of Business, Samford University, Independent Institute, King’s College London and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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slavery, public choice, capitalism, economic progress, economic growth