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Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017), pp. xxxii + 334, $28 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781101980965.

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Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017), pp. xxxii + 334, $28 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781101980965.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2019

David M. Levy
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 631 - 640
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Nutter, G. Warren. 1962. The Growth of Industrial Production in the Soviet Union. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Peart, Sandra J., and Levy, David M.. 2013. “F. A. Hayek and the ‘Individualists’.” In Peart, Sandra J. and Levy, David M., eds., Hayek and the Modern Economy: Economic Organization and Activity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Samuelson, Paul A. 1997. “Credo of a Lucky Textbook Author.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 11: 153–169.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[Saxon, O. Glenn]. 1960. Keynes at Harvard: Economic Deception as a Political Credo. New York: Veritas Foundation.Google Scholar
Thomas Jefferson Center. 1965. “Report on the Virginia Plan for Universal Education.” Occasional Paper #2. Charlottesville.Google Scholar
Tullock, Gordon. 1975. “Comment on Rae’s ‘The Limits of Consensual Decision.” The American Political Science Review 69: 1295–1297.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wicksell, Knut. 1958. “A New Principle of Just Taxation.” In Musgrave, Richard A. and Peacock, Alan T., eds., Classics in the Theory of Public Finance, transl. Buchanan, James M.. New York: St. Martin’s Press, pp. 72–118. Originally published in Jena in 1896.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections. The Conservative and Libertarian Movement.Google Scholar
Clise Papers, James W., 1932–1961.Google Scholar
Arrow, Kenneth J. 1971. Some Models of Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market. Santa Monica, CA: Rand.Google Scholar
Buchanan, James M. 1959. “Positive Economics, Welfare Economics, and Political Economy.” Journal of Law and Economics 2: 124–138.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buchanan, James M. 1975. “A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory.” American Economic Review 62: 225–230.Google Scholar
Buchanan, James M. 1976. “The Justice of Natural Liberty.” Journal of Legal Studies 5: 1–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buchanan, James M. 1980. “Affirmative, Negative.” Encounter (June): 95.Google Scholar
Buchanan, James M. 1981. “Equal Treatment and Reverse Discrimination.” In Braham, Randolf L., ed., Social Justice. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 79–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buchanan, James M. 2001. “Fairness, Hope, and Justice.” In The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan. Volume 17: Moral Science and Moral Order. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Originally published in New Directions in Economic Justice. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983, pp. 311–349.Google Scholar
Buchanan, James M. 2003. “Obituary: Justice among Natural Equals: Memorial Marker for John Rawls.” Public Choice 114: iii–v.Google Scholar
Buchanan, James M., and Samuels, Warren J.. 2008. “Politics as Exchange or Politics as Power: Two Views of the Government.” In Peart, Sandra J. and Levy, David M., eds., The Street Porter and the Philosopher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 15–40.Google Scholar
Calhoun, John C. 1992. Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun. Ed. Lence, Ross M.. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.Google Scholar
[Carlyle, Thomas]. 1849. “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question.” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 40: 670–679.Google Scholar
Colm, Gerhard. 1960. “In Defense of the Public Interest.” Social Research 27: 295–307.Google Scholar
Earhart Foundation. 2015. A Guide to the H. B. Earhart Fellowship Program: 1952–2015. Ann Arbor: Earhart Foundation.Google Scholar
Farrant, Andrew. 2018. “‘Who is this Crazy Man’? James M. Buchanan and the Repudiation of the Devil’s Debt.” Mss.Google Scholar
Farrant, Andrew. 2019. “What Should (Knightian) Economists Do? James M. Buchanan’s 1980 Visit to Chile.” Southern Economic Journal 85: 691–714.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Farrant, Andrew, and Tarko, Vlad. 2018. “James M. Buchanan’s 1981 Visit to Chile: Knightian Democrat or Defender of the ‘Devil’s Fix’?” Review of Austrian Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-017-0410-3. Accessed July 16, 2019.Google Scholar
Fiorito, Luca, and Orsi, Cosma. 2017. “Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism: Thomas Nixon Carver, Social Justice, and Eugenics.” History of Political Economy 49: 469–495.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fleury, Jean-Baptiste, and Marciano, Alain. 2018. “The Sound of Silence: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.” Journal of Economic Literature 56: 1492–1537.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hammond, Daniel J., and Hammond, Claire H., eds. 2006. Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman-Stigler Correspondence 1945–1957. New York: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hutt, William H. 1943. Plan for Reconstruction: A Project for Victory in War and Peace. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.Google Scholar
Kuehn, Daniel. 2018. “Accommodation Within the Broad Structure of Voluntary Society: Buchanan and Nutter on School Segregation.” Mss.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levy, David M., and Peart, Sandra J.. 2005. “The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading.” In “The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought.” Supplement, History of Political Economy 37: 120–142.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levy, David M. 2014a. “Almost Wholly Negative’: The Ford Foundation’s Appraisal of the Virginia School.” Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2485695. Accessed July 16, 2019.Google Scholar
Levy, David M. 2014b. “Ronald Coase and the Fabian Society: Competitive Discussion in Liberal Ideology.” Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2472130. Accessed July 16, 2019.Google Scholar
Levy, David M. 2017. Escape from Democracy: The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levy, David M. 2018. “Limits on the Application of Motivational Homogeneity in the Work of Buchanan and the Virginia School.” In Boettke, Peter J. and Stein, Solomon, eds., Buchanan’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of James M. Buchanan. Arlington: Mercatus Center, pp. 171–191.Google Scholar
Levy, David M. Forthcoming. Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School. New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Levy, David M., Peart, Sandra J., and Albert, Margaret. 2012. “Economic Liberals as Quasi-Public Intellectuals: The Democratic Dimension.” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 30: 1–116.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Magness, Philip W. 2018. “Buchanan and the MacLean Controversy in Retrospect; 1.5 Years Later.” http://philmagness.com/?p=2509. Accessed July 16, 2019.Google Scholar
Magness, Philip W., Carden, Art, and Geloso, Vincet. 2019. “James M. Buchanan and the Political Economy of Desegregation.” Southern Economic Journal 85: 715–741.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mill, John Stuart. 1859. Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform. Second edition. London: John Parker.Google Scholar
Nozick, Robert. 1974. Anarchy, State and Utopia. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar
Nutter, G. Warren. 1951. The Extent of Enterprise Monopoly in the United States 1899–1939. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Nutter, G. Warren. 1962. The Growth of Industrial Production in the Soviet Union. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Peart, Sandra J., and Levy, David M.. 2013. “F. A. Hayek and the ‘Individualists’.” In Peart, Sandra J. and Levy, David M., eds., Hayek and the Modern Economy: Economic Organization and Activity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Phelps, Edmund S. 1972. “The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism.” American Economic Review 62: 659–661.Google Scholar
Rothbard, Murry N. 2000. Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature. Available at https://mises.org/library/egalitarianism-revolt-against-nature-and-other-essays. Accessed July 16, 2019. Originally published Washington, DC: Libertarian Review Press, 1974.Google Scholar
Rothbard, Murry N. 2007. Betrayal of the American Right. Ed. Woods, Thomas E.. Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute. Available at https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/The%20Betrayal%20of%20the%20American%20Right_2.pdf?file=1&type=document. Accessed July 16, 2019.Google Scholar
Samuelson, Paul A. 1944. “Do We Want Free Enterprise?” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 236: 198–199CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Samuelson, Paul A. 1997. “Credo of a Lucky Textbook Author.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 11: 153–169.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[Saxon, O. Glenn]. 1960. Keynes at Harvard: Economic Deception as a Political Credo. New York: Veritas Foundation.Google Scholar
Thomas Jefferson Center. 1965. “Report on the Virginia Plan for Universal Education.” Occasional Paper #2. Charlottesville.Google Scholar
Tullock, Gordon. 1975. “Comment on Rae’s ‘The Limits of Consensual Decision.” The American Political Science Review 69: 1295–1297.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wicksell, Knut. 1958. “A New Principle of Just Taxation.” In Musgrave, Richard A. and Peacock, Alan T., eds., Classics in the Theory of Public Finance, transl. Buchanan, James M.. New York: St. Martin’s Press, pp. 72–118. Originally published in Jena in 1896.CrossRefGoogle Scholar