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Richard E. Wagner
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is Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
Independent Institute Book
Taxing Choice
The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination
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1997
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Economics, COVID-19, and the Entangled Political Economy of Public Health
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Spring 2021
Termites of the State
Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
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Spring 2019
Gordon Tullocks Scholarly Legacy: Extracting It from Buchanans Shadow
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Fall 2018
Controlling the State
Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
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Winter 2001/02