Privatization Of Roads And Highways: Human And Economic Factors

Block, Walter

History

Franklin Classics

With backing from the libertarian Cato Institute, Block (economics, Loyola U., New Orleans) argues that turning over control of US roads from the government to the private sector would improve roads and reduce traffic fatalities. In support of his thesis, the author explains how free market road transportation would work. E.g., congestion road pricing is one solution being taken seriously by mainstream planners. He responds to objections to his proposal by several critics, taking a detour to urge Mothers Against Drunk Driving to change its means toward its laudable goals. The book includes an interview with the author by Canadian libertarians, trend data on street/highway fatalities, and portions from earlier works. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors

Business & Money

Industries

Edwin Mellen

Religion, Economics and Social Thought

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Fraser Inst

Professor Walter Block's new book, Legalize Blackmail, collects a lifetime of his scholarly articles about blackmail in which he examines the legal and economic underpinnings of blackmail, traces its historical roots, and presents a libertarian framework for thinking about blackmail and its place in the law. Along the way, he confronts the theories of blackmail put forward by many other distinguished scholars, including Richard Posner, Robert Nozick, and Richard Epstein.

Legalize Blackmail

Straylight Publishing, LLC

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Devils River Country

Del Rio. Val Verde. By the river. The Green Valley. The great grand parents and their kin came. By horse . . . wagon . . . stage coach . . . foot back. They settled the village. Helped name it Del Rio. Assisted in forming Val Verde County. Grandparents told stories: of their coming to live in the wonderful country where Devils River, the Pecos, and the Rio Grande meet . . . of early times in the boundary area where the Chihuahuan Desert from the west meets hills of the Edwards Plateau to the north and merges with Tamaulipas brush land from the south and the east. Times change. Winter-time tale-tellings before the fireplace on grand-dad's knee . . . warm-weather story-sharings on the back porch in grand-ma's lap . . . wisps of Prince Albert pipe smoke . . .twinkings of twilight fire-flies . . . all eroded away by movies, television, and cell phones. But there are still stories to tell. Tales to pass on. Things we want children &ndash; grandchildren &ndash; those still to come &ndash; to remember &ndash; in times yet to be. This book is a gathering of happenings &ndash; remembrances of events &ndash; glimpses of parenting &ndash; thoughts of yesteryear. It tells of: Horses and windmills and tarantulas . . . a wrong-way bus trip . . . a hidden wedding ring . . . sycamore trees . . . a lost bath and football shack showers . . . lions and toads and tin soldiers . . . a picket fence . . . old telephones . . . poison pig weed . . . a crusty old red rooster . . . building boats and reviving old cars . . . holiday traditions . . . hunting experiences . . . sailing fiascos . . . and more.

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Del Rio. Val Verde. By the river. The Green Valley. The great grand parents and their kin came. By horse . . . wagon . . . stage coach . . . foot back. They settled the village. Helped name it Del Rio. Assisted in forming Val Verde County. Grandparents told stories: of their coming to live in the wonderful country where Devils River, the Pecos, and the Rio Grande meet . . . of early times in the boundary area where the Chihuahuan Desert from the west meets hills of the Edwards Plateau to the north and merges with Tamaulipas brush land from the south and the east. Times change. Winter-time tale-tellings before the fireplace on grand-dad's knee . . . warm-weather story-sharings on the back porch in grand-ma's lap . . . wisps of Prince Albert pipe smoke . . .twinkings of twilight fire-flies . . . all eroded away by movies, television, and cell phones. But there are still stories to tell. Tales to pass on. Things we want children - grandchildren - those still to come - to remember - in times yet to be. This book is a gathering of happenings - remembrances of events - glimpses of parenting - thoughts of yesteryear. It tells of: Horses and windmills and tarantulas . . . a wrong-way bus trip . . . a hidden wedding ring . . . sycamore trees . . . a lost bath and football shack showers . . . lions and toads and tin soldiers . . . a picket fence . . . old telephones . . . poison pig weed . . . a crusty old red rooster . . . building boats and reviving old cars . . . holiday traditions . . . hunting experiences . . . sailing fiascos . . . and more.

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com.  Walter Block has been writing on the economics of discrimination - and in defense of discrimination, rightly understood - for more than 30 years. This large hardcover collects nearly all of this writing to present a radical alternative to the mainstream view. His thesis is that discrimination -- choosing one thing over another -- is an inevitable feature of the material world where scarcity of goods and time is the pervasive feature. There is no getting around it. You must discriminate, and therefore you must have the freedom to discriminate, which only means the freedom to choose. Without discrimination, there is no economizing taking place. It is chaos. The market embeds institutions that assist people in making the wisest possible choices given the alternatives. In this sense, discrimination is rational and socially optimal. For the state to presume to criminalize it based on social and political priorities amounts to a subversion of the market and of human liberty that leads to social conflict. The empirical detail in this work is as rigorous as the argument is radical. What politics regards as a dangerous inequality, Block regards as perfectly rational given existing realities. In essence, Block's book is a specialized application of the libertarian perspective on society, as applied to a particular controversy in our times. It is supremely rare in tackling this issue head on, and offering a no-compromise alternative: abolish all anti-discrimination law on grounds that it makes no economic sense and only generates conflict where none need exist. Will this book cause controversy? Most assuredly. But that it is not its goal. Its goal is the uprooting of a flawed and failed social theory and its replacement by a realistic one that is rooted in a genuine concern for human rights and the good of all.

The Case for Discrimination (Large Print Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Rockwell Jr., Llewellyn H.

Sociology

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com In 1986, a remarkable party was held on Murray Rothbard's sixtieth birthday, and papers written in his honor were presented. Two years later the book was released. It contained many wonderful essays--both scholarly and humorous--on his work and life. At last it is back in print. Essays by Armentano, Arnold, Block, Christiansen, Garrison, Hoppe, Kirzner, North, Pasour, Ron Paul, Ellen Paul, Yeager, Den Uyl, Gordon, Machan, Jeffrey Paul, Holcombe, Osterfeld, Ekirch, Raico, Richman, Doenecke, Kephart, McCaffrey -- and JoAnn Rothbard as well as Margit von Mises (yes, she was there!)

Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard

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Privatization Of Roads And Highways: Human And Economic Factors

The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors

Religion, Economics and Social Thought

Legalize Blackmail

Privatization Of Roads And Highways: Human And Economic Factors

Privatization Of Roads And Highways: Human And Economic Factors

Devils River Country

Devils River Country

The Case for Discrimination (Large Print Edition)

Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard