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