Art Carden – Research

I pursue a multi-pronged research agenda in which I study the economic history of the American South, economic development more generally, and all things related to Walmart.  Here are a few papers that are online; most of my papers are also available on my SSRN page.

Courtemanche, Charles and Art Carden. 2014. Competing with Costco and Sam’s Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices. Southern Economic Journal 80(3):565-585.

Carden, Art and Christopher J. Coyne. 2013. The Political Economy of the Reconstruction-Era Race Riots. Public Choice 157:57-71.

Courtemanche, Charles and Art Carden.  2011. 

Walmart, Leisure, and Culture . Contemporary Economic Policy 27(4):450-461.

Carden, Art, Charles Courtemanche, and Jeremy Meiners.  2009. 

Painting the Town Red?  Wal-Mart and Values .  Business and Politics 11(2):Article 5.

Carden, Art, Charles Courtemanche, and Jeremy Meiners.  2009. 

Can’t Buy Me Growth:  On Foreign Aid and Economic Change .  Journal of Private Enterprise 25(1):105-123.

Carden, Art.  2009. 

Shock and Awe: Institutional Change, Neoliberalism, and Disaster Capitalism .  Journal of Lutheran Ethics 9(6, online). (Review Article)

Carden Art.  2009. 

Inputs and Institutions as Conservative Elements.  Review of Austrian Economics 22(1):1-19.  (Gated Link, also in HTMLChristian Ethics, Formal Institutions, and Economic Growth.  American Review of Political Economy 5(1):34-53.