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| Subject: Great guy: Walter Block Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:38 am | |
| Walter Block, an Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Recent & Selected Publications
* "Competition in Mail Delivery," Mid Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 26, No. 1, Fall, pp. 105-109 (1989) * "Social Welfare in Canada: The Case for Selectivity," Canadian Social Work Review, pp. 25-32 (1983) * Compromising the Uncompromisable: A Private Property Rights Approach to Resolving the Abortion Controversy (with Roy Whitehead), Appalachian Law Review (2005) * Walter Block and Jared Bernstein debate: Should the minimum wage be raised? (8/13/2006, Marty Nemko radio show; Real audio link) * Paul Craig Roberts on empirical measures of economic freedom: a rejoinder, International Journal of Social Economics (2006) * Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government (2 parts), Spring 2006 & Fall 2004 Reason Papers * "Libertarianism vs. Objectivism: A Response to Peter Schwartz," Reason Papers, Vol. 26, Summer 2003, pp. 39-62 * Toward a Libertarian Theory of Guilt and Punishment for the Crime of Statism, presented at the The Rise and Fall of the State seminar, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, AL, Auburn University, Oct. 6, 2000. * Federalism (with Stephan Kinsella), LewRockwell.com, May 25, 2005 * The State Was A Mistake, Mises.org, May 2004 * Now online: The Block-Epstein debate (audio) * Libertarianism, positive obligations and property abandonment: children's rights, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 31 No. 3, 2004 * Road Socialism, International Journal of Value-Based Management, 9 (1996): 195-207 * Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed Limits, Parades, Cigarettes, Asian Economic Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (April 1998): pp. 15-29 * Theories of Highway Safety, Transportation Research Record, #912, pp. 7-10
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| Subject: Re: Great guy: Walter Block Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:49 pm | |
| * Libertarianism, positive obligations and property abandonment: children's rights, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 31 No. 3, 2004
Such obligations are of the parents only, yes? |
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| Subject: Re: Great guy: Walter Block Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:14 pm | |
| Haven't read that highlighted section... just pointed it out... so? Mind you, I don't agree with everything he states, ie. you know, the usual bullshit re abortion say... |
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