Volume 17, no. 2 (Summer 2014) ABSTRACT : We welcome Professor Dolan’s (2014) contribution to Austrian economics, and the contributions of all economists associated with the Austrian school of thought to environmental issues. Although not an Austrian economist himself, Dolan has made more of a contribution to the praxeological school than perhaps
The Free Market 18, no. 5 (May 2000) University students are going berserk again. No, they are not swallowing goldfish, going on panty raids or stuffing themselves into phone booths, the excesses of a bygone day (the first two are now politically incorrect, and what with modern technology there is nary a phone booth to be found). Nor are they
The Free Market 18, no. 10 (October 2000) The Heritage Foundation is no flaming libertarian organization. Not for them the radical privatization of such things as bodies of water, roads, even social security, much less courts, armies, and police. But they are, after all, a conservative organization, so a person would think he could rely on
Volume 15, No. 2 (Summer 2012) Transitivity in economics maintains that if a is preferred to b , and b to c , then a must also be preferred to c. The problem with this is that these three decisions are made at different points of time, and tastes may have changed in the interim. The difficulty with a rejection of transitivity (which
Volume 13, Number 4 (Winter 2010) There are two Coase theorems. The simplistic one deals with the unrealistic world of zero transactions costs. The more important one addresses itself to the real world, where transactions costs are positive, and, often, larger than any possible gains that might ensue from market transactions. Demsetz and I
I am trying to write a book, or at least a bunch of more articles, applying private property rights to the oceans, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water. The difficulty I’m having is that while I’m pretty much plugged in to the Lockean-Rothbardian vision of private property on the basis of which I attempt to analyze this material, and make the
Volume 12, No. 1 (2009) The author provides a commentary. Despite Hoppe’s more elegant way of describing choice, it still remains a logical contradiction to oppose indifference and embrace interchangeable commodity units. For what does “interchangeable” mean other than “indifferent between”? Block, Walter. “Rejoinder to Hoppe on
Here I go over the moderate view of libertarianism with Henrik Palmgren from Red Ice Creations. I explain why the welfare state creates poverty by creating non-intact families and I go over how the government subsidizing unemployment gives incentives for unemployment that would otherwise not be there in a libertarian world.
Volume 19, Number 2 (Summer 1999) An Interview with Walter Block Walter Block is professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas and chairman of the department. He is also co-editor of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , and his work on a wide range of theoretical and political issues has advanced the practical application
At one time, the libertarian perspective on immigration could be summed up by the following mantra: “There shall be no interference with the free movement of goods, capital and people.” Volume 22, Number 1 (2011) Block, Walter. “Hoppe, Kinsella and Rothbard II on Immigration: A Critique.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 22, No. 1 (2011):
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.
