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Phillip W. Magness
Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy
Areas of Expertise
Economic Policy
Higher Education
Phillip W. Magness
Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy
Phillip W. Magness is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy. He has served as Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, and as Academic Program Director at the Institute for Humane Studies and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy and Government at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy.
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{content}The Nonsense of the ‘Tariff Men’
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Reciprocal and Are a Massive Tax Increase on Americans
While the Trump administration had already rolled...
Synthetic Karl Marx and His Clumsy Critic
Abstract In his second critique of our paper “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the...
Trade Freedom and The Myth of Tariff Reciprocity
Trump's trade agenda represents a misguided approach to achieving global fairness.
Economics in America
An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
The American Revolution Was a Fight for Free Trade
The American Revolution was driven in part by the colonists' desire to break...
Why Tariffs Are Toxic | Independent Outlook 70
What exactly are tariffs, and how do they work? How do they drive up prices? Are...
Locking Down American Liberty
The track record of Neil Ferguson’s centrally planned pandemic response model reveals its...
The 1619 Project Myth
Economic historian Phil Magness tackles the many falsehoods and misconceptions of the New York Times’s 1619...
