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Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 318.

I'm very glad today to welcome Philip Magnus to the show.

Phil is a U.S. historian. He's academic program director at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, where he also teaches at the university's School of Public Policy. He is co-author of the book Colonization After Emancipation, Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement.

But today, I want to talk about something else he co-authored, namely a new paper critiquing the empirical work

of Thomas Piccatee, author of Capital in the 21st Century, the very, very popular but also very

controversial work. We've talked about that one other time on this show, so on the show notes page,

I will link you to that episode. In that episode, we talked to economist Robert Murphy, a frequent guest of this show. So on the show notes page, I will link you to that episode. In that episode,

we talked to economist Robert Murphy, a frequent guest of this show. And it's with Bob Murphy

that Phil Magnus co-authored this article called Challenging the Empirical Contribution of Thomas

Picatee's Capital in the 21st century. This paper, even though it's an

academic paper, has actually been getting a lot of press attention lately, so I thought it would

be interesting to talk about the paper and, of course, link you to the paper so you can read it

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