Author Page for Art Carden

Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 05 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics and Brock School of Business, Samford University

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How to be a Great Conference Participant

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Jan 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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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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The Under-Appreciated Thomas Sowell

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 May 2023

Art Carden and Brian C. Albrecht

Brock School of Business, Samford University and International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE)

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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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Time Under Authoritarian Rule and Economic Growth

CORI Working Paper No. 2007-02

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Sep 2007

Art Carden and Harvey S. James Jr.

Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of Missouri at Columbia - Division of Applied Social Sciences

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Shock and Awe: Institutional Change, Neoliberalism, and Disaster Capitalism

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 20 May 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Economic Calculation in the Environmentalist Commonwealth

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 May 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Human Rights and Economic Liberalization

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2010

Art Carden and Robert A. Lawson

Brock School of Business, Samford University and Auburn University - Department of Finance

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When is Corruption a Substitute for Economic Freedom?

Law and Development Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 May 2008 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2010

Art Carden and Lisa L. Verdon

Brock School of Business, Samford University and College of Wooster

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Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices

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Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 Mar 2011

Charles Courtemanche and Art Carden

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics and Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w17220

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023

Charles Courtemanche and Art Carden

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics and Brock School of Business, Samford University

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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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Revenue and Regulation: Lessons for E.U. Leaders from the Roman Empire to the Modern Era

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Jan 2009

Alexandar D. Tokarev and Art Carden

Northwood University and Brock School of Business, Samford University

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The Bourgeois Deal: Leave Me Alone, and I'll Make You Rich

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Apr 2018

Art Carden and Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Economics

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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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Does Wal-Mart Reduce Social Capital?

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2007

Art Carden, Charles Courtemanche and Jeremy Meiners

Brock School of Business, Samford University, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics and Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Economics

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Why are Some Places Rich While Others are Poor? The Institutional Necessity of Economic Freedom

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 29 Jul 2009

Art Carden and Joshua C. Hall

Brock School of Business, Samford University and West Virginia University

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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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Review of Paul Heyne, 'Are Economists Basically Immoral?'

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 27 May 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Economic Progress and Entrepreneurial Innovation: Case Studies from Memphis

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2010

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Can't Buy Me Growth: On Foreign Aid and Economic Change

Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 105-123

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2010

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Wal-Mart and Values: Painting the Town Red?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2009

Art Carden, Charles Courtemanche and Jeremy Meiners

Brock School of Business, Samford University, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics and Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Economics

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Going Far By Going Together: James M. Buchanan’s Economics of Shared Ethics

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 15 May 2021

Art Carden, Gregory W. Caskey and Zachary Kessler

Brock School of Business, Samford University, The Citadel and The Alan Turing Institute

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Wal-Mart, Leisure, and Culture

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Jun 2008

Art Carden and Charles Courtemanche

Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics

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Review of Nelson Lichtenstein, Ed. 'Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 26 May 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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James M. Buchanan and the Public Choice Tradition

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2021

Art Carden, Audrey Redford, M. Scott King and James Hanley

Brock School of Business, Samford University, Hampden-Sydney College - Ecomonics and Business Department, George Mason University and Independent

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Socialism

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Dec 2022

Art Carden, Ilia Murtazashvili and Anna Claire Flowers

Brock School of Business, Samford University, University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and George Mason University

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The Black Market and the Silver Screen: Economics in the Third Man

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Feb 2020

Mike Hammock and Art Carden

Middle Tennessee State University - Department of Economics and Finance and Brock School of Business, Samford University

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The Vital Two: Retail Innovation By Sol Price and Sam Walton

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Sep 2021

Art Carden, Charles Courtemanche and Reginald Harris

Brock School of Business, Samford University, University of Kentucky and Samford University

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A Pile of Krusty Burgers Embiggens the Fattest Man: Obesity, Incentives, and Unintended Consequences in 'King Size Homer'

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Apr 2010

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Slavery, Violence, and Law in the Nineteenth-Century South

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Dec 2008

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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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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The Transitional Gains Trap

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 31 Aug 2021

Art Carden and Sarah Moore

Brock School of Business, Samford University and George Mason University - Department of Economics

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Inputs and Institutions as Conservative Elements

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Inputs and Institutions as Conservative Elements

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Apr 2007

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Inputs and Institutions as Conservative Elements

Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming

Posted: 01 Dec 2007

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Review of Benjamin Powell, Ed, 'Making Poor Nations Rich'

Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 May 2008

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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The Truthiness Hurts

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Jun 2008

Art Carden and Mike Hammock

Brock School of Business, Samford University and Middle Tennessee State University - Department of Economics and Finance

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Review of Randall Holcombe, 'Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress'

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 23 May 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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W.H. Hutt: An Economist for the Twenty-First Century

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Oct 2024

Art Carden and Ilia Murtazashvili

Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of Pittsburgh

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Economic Planning Must Be Polycentric, Not Monocentric: Introduction to a Symposium on Mises and Hayek on Socialism and Knowledge

Southern Economic Journal, 2022

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Dec 2022

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Profit and Production

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2008

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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James M. Buchanan's Constrained Vision in Cost and Choice

Journal of Private Enterprise

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2021

Art Carden, M. Scott King, Audrey Redford and James Hanley

Brock School of Business, Samford University, George Mason University, Hampden-Sydney College - Ecomonics and Business Department and Independent

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Apartheid

Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Sep 2021

Art Carden and Christopher Lingle

Brock School of Business, Samford University and Universidad Francisco Marroquin

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Beliefs, Bias, and Regime Uncertainty after Hurricane Katrina

International Journal of Social Economic, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 May 2008

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Review of Jennifer Burns,'Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right'

Economic Affairs (Institute for Economic Affairs), Forthcoming

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 05 Jan 2010

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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A Note on Profit, Loss, and Social Responsibility

New Perspectives on Political Economy, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 Apr 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Review of Bill Hybels, 'Holy Discontent'

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 14 Jul 2008

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Sound and Fury: Rhetoric and Rebound after Katrina

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 May 2008

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Review of David M. Primo, 'Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions'

Public Choice, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 26 May 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Competition, Coercion, and African American Economic Progress in the Work of Robert Higgs

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 Dec 2022

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange

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The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange

The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming.

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Dec 2022

Art Carden and Rosolino Candela

Brock School of Business, Samford University and George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange

Independent Institute Working Paper Number 82

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 02 Aug 2017

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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We'll Never Be Royals, But that Doesn't Matter

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Jun 2017

Art Carden, Sarah M. Estelle and Anne Rathbone Bradley

Brock School of Business, Samford University, Rhodes College and Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics

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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

NBER Working Paper No. w24750

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2023

Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Murugi Ndirangu and Xilin Zhou

Georgia State University - Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Brock School of Business, Samford University, Columbia University and Georgia State University

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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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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11589

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021

Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Xilin Zhou and Murugi Ndirangu

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics, Brock School of Business, Samford University, Georgia State University and Columbia University

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What Ought to Be if 'There Ought to Be a Law': Remembering Horwitz with Variations on Brennan and Freiman

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 03 Nov 2022

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Coercion

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2022

Art Carden, John Meadowcroft and Ilia Murtazashvili

Brock School of Business, Samford University, King’s College London and University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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Slavery

Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Oct 2024

Art Carden, Phillip Magness, John Meadowcroft and Ilia Murtazashvili

Brock School of Business, Samford University, Independent Institute, King’s College London and University of Pittsburgh

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The Economics of 'Certaine Lewd and Ill-Disposed Persons': Comment on Leeson

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 01 Nov 2009

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Review of Richard Wagner, 'James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy'

Regulation, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 24 Jul 2017

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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More and Better: Resources Defined Through Property and Exchange

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 31 May 2017

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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Coercion Against Coordination: W.H. Hutt on Collective Bargaining and the Strike-Threat System

It has been submitted to a special issue of the Review of Austrian Economics.

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 09 Oct 2024

Art Carden and Ilia Murtazashvili

Brock School of Business, Samford University and University of Pittsburgh

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Artifactual Man and the Image of God

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Nov 2024

Art Carden, Jaime Carini and Nathanael David Snow

Brock School of Business, Samford University, Indiana University and Ball State University, Department of Economics, Institute for the Study of Political Economy

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Entrepreneurial Alertness

Number of pages: 13

Reginald Harris and Art Carden

Samford University and Brock School of Business, Samford University

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The Southern Economy

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2011

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

Art Carden

Brock School of Business, Samford University

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