Phillip W. Magness

  • Fake Meat: More Entrée or Agenda?  

    “The plant-based alternatives industry appears to be facing its first true market test and doing poorly. It is a much smaller market than producers perceived, due to the noisy signals and political distortions of Conspicuous Production.” ~Phillip W. Magness and Peter C. Earle

    Fake Meat: More Entrée or Agenda?  
  • It’s Time to Discard Piketty’s Inequality Statistics

    “As the study and measurement of inequality progresses, Piketty’s (and his team’s) main estimates have become obsolete and might be properly consigned to the field of the history of economic thought.” ~Phil Magness & Vincent Geloso

    It’s Time to Discard Piketty’s Inequality Statistics
  • College History Textbooks spread Misinformation about the Great Depression

    “US history instruction, including at the college level, is badly out of sync with the scholarly literature on the Great Depression. History textbooks show little cognizance of the leading economic explanations for this famous event.” ~Phil W. Magness

    College History Textbooks spread Misinformation about the Great Depression
  • Critical Race Theory in Data: What the Statistics Show

    “While CRT may have been a niche subject as recently as the 1990s, academic journal citations of CRT scholars exploded around the time of the ‘Great Awokening’ (2013-2014).” ~Phillip W. Magness

    Critical Race Theory in Data: What the Statistics Show
  • Joe Biden, Shifty Economists, and the Big Lie

    “America’s federal tax system remains steeply progressive, and no politically motivated data manipulation will ever alter that fact.” ~Phil Magness

    Joe Biden, Shifty Economists, and the Big Lie
  • Academic Lies about Free-Market Economists

    “They treat history as ‘an armoury from which to ransack politically expedient weapons.’ In the process of that ransacking, they cross the line into willful misrepresentations of their source material, all in the service of a modern-day political cause. ” ~Phillip W. Magness

    Academic Lies about Free-Market Economists
  • Freedom of Choice in Education: the Origins of a Slogan

    “The Virginia Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union, linked arms with segregationist attorney John S. Battle, Jr. to attack the tuition grants.” ~Phillip Magness

    Freedom of Choice in Education: the Origins of a Slogan
  • An Academic Footnote for Florida’s Slavery Curriculum

    “As with most K-12 curricula, the new standards are heavy on formulaic ‘lessons’ to check boxes about names, dates, and subjects being covered. This approach often lacks the nuance and complexity that are needed to examine historical subjects such as slavery.” ~ Phillip W. Magness

    An Academic Footnote for Florida’s Slavery Curriculum
  • How AIER Helped to Hobble Fauci’s “Ministry of Truth”

    “Government officials advanced a smear campaign against the GBD, its authors, AIER, and other critics. Judge Doughty says the case ‘arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.’” ~ By Phil Magness and Robert E. Wright

    How AIER Helped to Hobble Fauci’s “Ministry of Truth”
  • Three Myths About Marx

    “Findings suggest that political events, rather than intellectual renown, placed Marx on the map.” ~ Phillip W. Magness

    Three Myths About Marx

What is Classical Liberal History

PWM Michael J. Douma.

Democracy in Chains and Methods of History

PW Magness. Cato Institute, 2017

Market-Based Measurement for School Achievement

C Surprenant, P Magness. Available at SSRN 2958022, 2017

Exploring Lincoln: Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President. The North’s Civil War

PW Magness. The Journal of Southern History 82 (3), 679-681, 2016

Leonard P. Liggio: man of peace

M Zupan, PW Magness. The Independent Review 20 (1), 121-126, 2015

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE

PW Magness, RP Murphy, S Ammous, E Phelps, M Krause, BL Benson, …. Journal of Private Enterprise, 2015

Lincoln on Race and Slavery

PW Magness. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 108 (4), 408-411, 2010

Rules of the Game: How Government Works and Sometimes Doesn’t

P Magness, P Weissburg. The Modern Scholar, 2011

Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union

PW Magness. The North Carolina Historical Review 89 (3), 355-356, 2012

Lincoln on Race and Slavery

WM PHILLIP. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 108 (4), 408-411, 2010

Slaves for Hire: Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia

PW Magness. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 121 (2), 184, 2013

Lincoln and McClellan at War

PW Magness. The North Carolina Historical Review 91 (1), 110-111, 2014

Divided government and the bias against presidential restraint

F Garmon Jr, V Geloso, P Magness. The Social Science Journal, 1-18, 2020

Realistic Solutions to Big College Problems: Overhauling the Higher Education Act

R Scott, PW Magness, RK Vedder, T Zywicki, N McCluskey. Cato Institute, 2019

Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816-1861

PW Magness. The Historian 81 (4), 679-681, 2019

The economic history of taxation and inequality in the United States

PW Magness. Capitalism and Inequality, 183-209, 2020

Phil Magness: COVID-19 Interview

P Magness. Salem Center, 2020

“The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: WH Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism

PA Coclanis, RE Wright, PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili, …. The Independent Review; Oakland Vol. 26, Iss. 4, (Spring 2022): 0_3,0_4.

NEW RESEARCH AVENUES IN THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE LATE ANTEBELLUM AND CIVIL WAR ERA

PW Magness. A Companion to US Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present, 173-195, 2020

“William Leggett: Free Trade, Hard Money, and Abolitionism”(July 2019)

PW Magness. Liberty Fund: Adam Smith Works, 2019

James Buchanan.

PW Magness. TLS. Times Literary Supplement, 6-7, 2018

Abraham Lincoln’s Swing State Strategy: Tariff Surrogates and the Pennsylvania Election of 1860

PW Magness. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 143 (1), 5-32, 2019

Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages ed. by Lucas E. Morel

PW Magness. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 86 (4), 571-576, 2019

The Best of Karl Marx

K Marx, P Magness.

The Bias Against Presidential Restraint

F Garmon Jr, V Geloso, P Magness. Available at SSRN 3309604, 2019

What is Classical Liberal History?

J Bean, DT Beito, M Brown, M Bunyk, LT Ealy, H Eicholz, A Garín, …. Lexington Books, 2017

The Pinochet Slur Against Free Market Scholars. May 14

PW Magness. American Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, Mass.). Link, 2019

Market-based measurement for school achievement

P Magness, CW Surprenant. Journal of Markets & Morality 22 (1), 2019

The danger of deplorable reactions

PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. WH Hutt on liberalism, populism, and the constitutional political economy of …, 2022

Darity, Camara, and MacLean on William H. Hutt

PW Magness, A Carden. Econ Journal Watch 19 (2), 204-231, 2022

Tariffs and the American Civil War

PW Magness, WW Freehling, PW Magness. Historical Review 49 (4), 609-29, 1944

What Did James Buchanan Actually Believe about Segregation?

PW Magness. Phillip W. Magness: US History and Political History, 2017

Irreplicable Wealth Inequality in the UK

PW Magness. URL: http://philmagness. com, 2015

Confederate Exodus: Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of US Southerners to Brazil

PW Magness. Journal of American History 109 (3), 676-677, 2022

Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery

P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023

How the Academy Rehabilitated Karl Marx

PW Magness. Cato Institute, 2022

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

A Carden, V Geloso, PW Magness. Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of …, 2022

The Fickle ‘Science’of Lockdowns

PW Magness, PC Earle. The Wall Street Journal, 2021

School vouchers and the inverse-Hirschman scenario

P Magness. Library of Economics and Liberty, 2017

The Economic Eugenicism of John Maynard Keynes

SJ Hernandez, PW Magness. Journal of Markets and Morality, 2017

Understanding the exceptional pre-vaccination era East Asian COVID-19 outcomes

J Bhattacharya, P Magness, M Kulldorff. Advances in Biological Regulation, 100916, 2022

The Failures of Pandemic Central Planning

P Magness. Available at SSRN 3934452, 2021

Consumer Sovereignty and WH Hutt’s Critique of the Colour Bar

PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. Working paper, 2021

The origins and political persistence of COVID-19 lockdowns

PW Magness, PC Earle. The Independent Review 25 (4), 503-520, 2021

Racism and the Early History of the American Economic Association

PW Magness. American Institute for Economic Research, 2020

A Comment the ‘New’History of American Capitalism

P Magness. Available at SSRN 3438828, 2019

Did Buchanan support segregated school vouchers

P Magness. Phillip W. Magness, 2018

How Warren Nutter Opposed Massive Resistance

PW Magness. Phillip W. Magness: US Economic and Political History, 2018

What the Hoax Papers Tell Us about the Decline of Academic Standards

PW Magness. James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, November 28, 11, 2018

Fact Checking the 1619 Project and Its Critics

P Magness. American Institute for Economic Research, December 23, 2019

” The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: WH Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism

PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. The Independent Review 26 (4), 533-552, 2022

Buchanan the Evil Genius

A Carden, P Magness. Regulation 40, 60, 2017

The New History of Capitalism Has a ‘Whiteness’ Problem

PW Magness. American Institute for Economic Research, 2019

Social justice, public goods, and rent seeking in narratives

VJ Geloso, PW Magness. The Independent Review 24 (1), 37-48, 2019

John Maynard Keynes, HG Wells, and a problematic utopia

PW Magness, JR Harrigan. History of Political Economy 52 (2), 211-238, 2020

James Mitchell and the Mystery of the Emigration Office Papers

PW Magness. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 32 (2), 50-62, 2011

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

PW Magness. Journal of Contextual Economics–Schmollers Jahrbuch 141 (3), 189-214, 2021

The Case for Retracting Matthew Desmond’s 1619 Project Essay

PW Magness. American Institute for Economic Research, 2020

Anti-Piketty: vive le capital au XXIe siècle!

D Acemoglu, D Boudreaux, JP Delsol, James A.. Dorn, N Eberstadt, …. Libréchange les éditions, 2015

Growing government Demands for Accountability vs. Independence in the University

PWM A. Lee Fritschler, Paul Weissburg. Liberal Education 94 (4), 2008

Alexander Hamilton’s Exaggerated Abolitionism

PW Magness. History News Network, 2015

How pronounced is the U-curve? Revisiting income inequality in the United States, 1917–60

VJ Geloso, P Magness, J Moore, P Schlosser. The Economic Journal 132 (647), 2366-2391, 2022

Morrill and the Missing Industries: Strategic Lobbying Behavior and the Tariff, 1858-1861

PW Magness. Journal of the Early Republic 29 (2), 287-329, 2009

James M. Buchanan and the political economy of desegregation

PW Magness, A Carden, V Geloso. Southern Economic Journal 85 (3), 715-741, 2019

Estimating the cost of justice for adjuncts: A case study in university business ethics

J Brennan, P Magness. Journal of Business Ethics 148, 155-168, 2018

Are adjunct faculty exploited: Some grounds for skepticism

J Brennan, P Magness. Journal of Business Ethics 152, 53-71, 2018

15. Challenging the Empirical Contribution of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century

PW Magness, RP Murphy. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century, 101, 2017

Cracks in the ivory tower: The moral mess of higher education

J Brennan, P Magness. Oxford University Press, 2019

Benjamin Butler’s Colonization Testimony Reevaluated

PW Magness. journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 29 (1), 1-28, 2008

The American system and the political economy of black colonization

PW Magness. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 37 (2), 187-202, 2015

Colonization after Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement

PW Magness, SN Page. University of Missouri Press, 2011

The Economic Eugenicism of John Maynard Keynes

PW Magness, SJ Hernandez. Journal of Markets and Morality, 2017

A paradox of secessionism: The political economy of slave enforcement and the union

PW Magness. Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History: Volume 1, 53-68, 2018

School vouchers, segregation, and consumer sovereignty

P Magness, CW Surprenant. Journal of School Choice 13 (3), 410-434, 2019

The Pejorative Origins of the Term Neoliberalism

PW Magness. Harwood Economic Review, 2018