The Department of Economics

Faculty Profile

Robert McGuire Professor Ph.D. University of Washington, 1978 Fields: Economic History, Law and Economics, Public Choice

• Government and the American Economy (with Price Fishback, Robert Higgs, Gary Libecap, John Wallis, Stanley Engerman, Jeffrey Hummel, Sumner LaCroix, Robert Margo, et al.), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
• "Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities: Intestinal Worm Infections in the Early Twentieth-Century American South," Social History of Medicine 19 (December 2006): 461 - 482.
• "A Supply and Demand Exposition of a Constitutional Tax Loophole: The Case of Tariff Symmetry," (with T. Norman Van Cott), Constitutional Political Economy 14 (March 2003): 39 - 45.
• To Form A More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)
• "The Confederate Constitution, Tariffs, and the Laffer Relationship," (with T. Norman Cott), Economic Inquiry 40 (July 2002): 428 - 438.
• "Diets vs. Diseases: The Anthropometrics of Slave Children," (with Philip R. P. Coelho). Journal of Economic History 60 (March 2000): 232-246.
• "Biology, Diseases, and Economics: An Epidemiological History of Slavery in the American South," (with Philip R. P. Coelho). Journal of Bioeconomics 1 (No. 2 1999): 151-190.