Phillip Magne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4278861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Magne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Magne |
| SIGNATURE | MAGNE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Institute for Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5627-5244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery
The Mainstreaming of Marx
Karl Marx's high academic stature outside of economics diverges sharply from his peripheral influence within the discipline, particularly after nineteenth-century developments rendered the labor theory of value obsolete. We hypothesize that the 1917 Russian Revolution is responsible for elevating Marx into the academic mainstream. Using the synthetic control method, we construct a counterfactual for Marx's citation patterns in Google Ngram data. …
How Pronounced is the U-Curve? Revisiting Income Inequality in the United States, 1917–60
Piketty and Saez (2003) found a pronounced U-curve pattern of American income inequality since 1917, displaying a precipitous decline during World War II to a level that would hold until 1980. We offer revisions to their income inequality estimates prior to 1960 with three important findings. First, Piketty and Saez overstate inequality levels in this period. Second, the decline during World War II was smaller than depicted. Third, the Great Depr…
Confederate Exodus
Historical curiosity has long inspired interest in the Confederados—immigrants from the former Confederate states who resettled in Brazil in the aftermath of the Civil War. Even though other late nineteenth-century immigration patterns to Brazil outranked the Confederados in size, this group—likely numbering in the tens of thousands—holds the unusual distinction of being among the largest cohesive out-migrations from the United States on record. …
Coining Neoliberalism
Widespread use of the term "neoliberalism" is of surprisingly recent origin, dating to only the late 20 th century. The "neoliberalism" literature has nonetheless settled on an origin story that depicts the term as a self-selected moniker from the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium. This paper challenges the 1938 origin, positing an earlier adoption of the term by Marxist and fascist political writers in 1920s German-language texts. These writers us…
John Maynard Keynes, H. G. Wells, and a Problematic Utopia
In this article we explore the intellectual origins of John Maynard Keynes’s “Economic Possibilities” by introducing evidence of its parallels to a similar utopian message in H. G. Wells’s obscure didactic novel, The World of William Clissold (1926). Drawing upon archival evidence from Keynes and Wells’s own contemporary exchanges, we bring to light a largely unnoticed intellectual dialogue between the two authors that took place from roughly 192…
Herb Childress. The Adjunct Underclass
Divided government and the bias against presidential restraint
Comparative rankings of presidential performance can be clouded with partisan biases. Here, we argue that the presidential rankings literature contains an overlooked bias favoring presidential activity. It is easier to observe the use of power than the exercise of restraint. As such, expert rankings of presidents may exhibit a selection bias whereby we are best able to evaluate those who are more proactive rather than those who, willfully or not,…
The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory
Detecting Historical Inequality Patterns
Objective This article utilizes a replication exercise to evaluate the reliability of the historical time series for top wealth share concentrations in the United Kingdom, as presented in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty‐First Century (2014a). Method Using Piketty's identified source records, an attempt is made to replicate the construction of his time series for top wealth concentrations in the U.K. These results are then compared against …
The American System and the Political Economy of Black Colonization
From 1816 through to the end of the Civil War, the colonization of emancipated slaves in Africa and the American tropics occupied a prominent place in federal policy discussions. Although colonization has traditionally been interpreted as an aberration in anti-slavery thought on account of its dubious racial legacy and discounted for its impracticality, its political persistence remains a challenge for historians of the antebellum era. This artic…
The British Honduras Colony
The traditional historical narrative has tended to interpret colonization during the Civil War by simultaneously discounting African-American support for the policy and Abraham Lincoln's sincerity in offering it. Challenging these views, this paper examines new evidence of the U.S. government's efforts to enlist the pro-emigration minority of the free black community for a proposed settlement in British Honduras. For a brief period in 1863, black…
Constitutional tariffs, incidental protection, and the Laffer relationship in the early United States
How Pronounced is the U-Curve? Revisiting Income Inequality in the United States, 1917–60
Piketty and Saez (2003) found a pronounced U-curve pattern of American income inequality since 1917, displaying a precipitous decline during World War II to a level that would hold until 1980. We offer revisions to their income inequality estimates prior to 1960 with three important findings. First, Piketty and Saez overstate inequality levels in this period. Second, the decline during World War II was smaller than depicted. Third, the Great Depr…
The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory
The American System and the Political Economy of Black Colonization
From 1816 through to the end of the Civil War, the colonization of emancipated slaves in Africa and the American tropics occupied a prominent place in federal policy discussions. Although colonization has traditionally been interpreted as an aberration in anti-slavery thought on account of its dubious racial legacy and discounted for its impracticality, its political persistence remains a challenge for historians of the antebellum era. This artic…
The Mainstreaming of Marx
Karl Marx's high academic stature outside of economics diverges sharply from his peripheral influence within the discipline, particularly after nineteenth-century developments rendered the labor theory of value obsolete. We hypothesize that the 1917 Russian Revolution is responsible for elevating Marx into the academic mainstream. Using the synthetic control method, we construct a counterfactual for Marx's citation patterns in Google Ngram data. …
Detecting Historical Inequality Patterns
Objective This article utilizes a replication exercise to evaluate the reliability of the historical time series for top wealth share concentrations in the United Kingdom, as presented in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty‐First Century (2014a). Method Using Piketty's identified source records, an attempt is made to replicate the construction of his time series for top wealth concentrations in the U.K. These results are then compared against …
Constitutional tariffs, incidental protection, and the Laffer relationship in the early United States
The British Honduras Colony
The traditional historical narrative has tended to interpret colonization during the Civil War by simultaneously discounting African-American support for the policy and Abraham Lincoln's sincerity in offering it. Challenging these views, this paper examines new evidence of the U.S. government's efforts to enlist the pro-emigration minority of the free black community for a proposed settlement in British Honduras. For a brief period in 1863, black…
The American System and the Political Economy of Black Colonization
From 1816 through to the end of the Civil War, the colonization of emancipated slaves in Africa and the American tropics occupied a prominent place in federal policy discussions. Although colonization has traditionally been interpreted as an aberration in anti-slavery thought on account of its dubious racial legacy and discounted for its impracticality, its political persistence remains a challenge for historians of the antebellum era. This artic…
Detecting Historical Inequality Patterns
Objective This article utilizes a replication exercise to evaluate the reliability of the historical time series for top wealth share concentrations in the United Kingdom, as presented in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty‐First Century (2014a). Method Using Piketty's identified source records, an attempt is made to replicate the construction of his time series for top wealth concentrations in the U.K. These results are then compared against …
John Maynard Keynes, H. G. Wells, and a Problematic Utopia
In this article we explore the intellectual origins of John Maynard Keynes’s “Economic Possibilities” by introducing evidence of its parallels to a similar utopian message in H. G. Wells’s obscure didactic novel, The World of William Clissold (1926). Drawing upon archival evidence from Keynes and Wells’s own contemporary exchanges, we bring to light a largely unnoticed intellectual dialogue between the two authors that took place from roughly 192…
Herb Childress. The Adjunct Underclass
Divided government and the bias against presidential restraint
Comparative rankings of presidential performance can be clouded with partisan biases. Here, we argue that the presidential rankings literature contains an overlooked bias favoring presidential activity. It is easier to observe the use of power than the exercise of restraint. As such, expert rankings of presidents may exhibit a selection bias whereby we are best able to evaluate those who are more proactive rather than those who, willfully or not,…
The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory
Coining Neoliberalism
Widespread use of the term "neoliberalism" is of surprisingly recent origin, dating to only the late 20 th century. The "neoliberalism" literature has nonetheless settled on an origin story that depicts the term as a self-selected moniker from the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium. This paper challenges the 1938 origin, positing an earlier adoption of the term by Marxist and fascist political writers in 1920s German-language texts. These writers us…
The Mainstreaming of Marx
Karl Marx's high academic stature outside of economics diverges sharply from his peripheral influence within the discipline, particularly after nineteenth-century developments rendered the labor theory of value obsolete. We hypothesize that the 1917 Russian Revolution is responsible for elevating Marx into the academic mainstream. Using the synthetic control method, we construct a counterfactual for Marx's citation patterns in Google Ngram data. …
How Pronounced is the U-Curve? Revisiting Income Inequality in the United States, 1917–60
Piketty and Saez (2003) found a pronounced U-curve pattern of American income inequality since 1917, displaying a precipitous decline during World War II to a level that would hold until 1980. We offer revisions to their income inequality estimates prior to 1960 with three important findings. First, Piketty and Saez overstate inequality levels in this period. Second, the decline during World War II was smaller than depicted. Third, the Great Depr…
Confederate Exodus
Historical curiosity has long inspired interest in the Confederados—immigrants from the former Confederate states who resettled in Brazil in the aftermath of the Civil War. Even though other late nineteenth-century immigration patterns to Brazil outranked the Confederados in size, this group—likely numbering in the tens of thousands—holds the unusual distinction of being among the largest cohesive out-migrations from the United States on record. …
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery
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