Phillip Magness

American Institute for Economic Research

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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
American Institute for Economic Research 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
American Institute for Economic Research 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
American Institute for Economic Research
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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
American Institute for Economic Research, 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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The Failures of Pandemic Central Planning

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Phillip Magness
American Institute for Economic Research
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Public Choice, Covid, Imperial College

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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
American Institute for Economic Research
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Immigration, Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberalism

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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 American Institute for Economic Research
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James Buchanan, Public Choice, Democracy, political economy

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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
Vincent Geloso, Phillip Magness, John Moore, Philip Schlosser and Philip Schlosser
George Mason University - Department of Economics, American Institute for Economic Research, Northwood University and University of Detroit MercyWayne State University
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Inequality, Top Incomes, US Economic History

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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
American Institute for Economic Research and Independent
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John Maynard Keynes, Eugenics, Neo-Malthusianism

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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 American Institute for Economic Research
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Income inequality, data quality, Piketty, Saez, economic history

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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
American Institute for Economic Research
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Neoliberalism, Neoliberal, Mont Pelerin Society, Ludwig Von Mises

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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
American Institute for Economic Research 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
American Institute for Economic Research 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 American Institute for Economic Research
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James M. Buchanan, Democracy, John C. Calhoun

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Detecting Historical Inequality Patterns: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Wealth Concentration Estimates for the United Kingdom

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Nov 2018
Phillip Magness
American Institute for Economic Research
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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
American Institute for Economic Research, 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
American Institute for Economic Research
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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
American Institute for Economic Research 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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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 American Institute for Economic Research
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Inequality, Top Incomes, US Economic History

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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 American Institute for Economic Research
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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 American Institute for Economic Research
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Presidential Studies, American History, American Politics, Divided Government

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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
American Institute for Economic Research
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Income Tax, 16th Amendment, Rent Seeking, Tariffs, Protectionism, Constitutional Political Economy

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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
American Institute for Economic Research, 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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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
American Institute for Economic Research
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colonization, American System, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Carey, Henry C. Carey

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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: 24 Jun 2023
Phillip Magness and Michael Makovi
American Institute for Economic Research 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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Market-Based Measurement for School Achievement

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Apr 2017
Chris Surprenant and Phillip Magness
University of New Orleans and American Institute for Economic Research
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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
American Institute for Economic Research
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COVID-19, masks, pandemic, coronavirus