Property Rights: The Argument for Privatization

ISBN-13: 9783030283520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 435 str.

Walter E. Block

Spis treści

Part I. Philosophy

Chapter 1: Property and Exploitation

Chapter 2: The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements and Theft

Chapter 3: Ona’ah.- Part II. Libertarian Property Rights Theory

Chapter 4: Hayek's Road to Serfdom

Chapter 5: Block vs. Friedman on Hayek

Chapter 6: Pipes on Property and Freedom

Chapter 7: Bethell on Property and Prosperity

Chapter 8: Radical Privatization and other Libertarian Conundrums

Chapter 9: Prices and Location: A Geographical and Economic Analysis

Part III. Reparations

Chapter 10: On Reparations to Blacks for Slavery

Chapter 11: Reparations, Once Again

Chapter 12: The Economics and Ethics of Land Reform

Part IV. Other property rights issues

Chapter 13: Eminent Domain: A Legal and Economic Analysis

Chapter 14: Eminent Domain: A Legal and Economic Critique

Chapter 15: Canadian Aboriginals: A Debate

Chapter 16: Space Environmentalism, Property Rights, and the Law

Chapter 17: Coase and Kelo: Ominous Parallels and Lott on Rothbard on Coase

Chapter 18: Landsburg on Crime

Chapter 19: Debate on Eminent Domain

Chapter 20: Homesteading City Streets; An Exercise in Managerial Theory

Chapter 21: O.J.'s Defense: A Reductio Ad Absurdum of Coase and Posner

O autorze

Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, USA, and senior fellow at the Mises Institute, USA. He earned his PhD in economics at Columbia University in 1972. He has taught at Rutgers, SUNY Stony Brook, Baruch CUNY, Holy Cross and the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than 500 refereed articles in professional journals, two dozen books, and thousands of op eds. He lectures widely on college campuses, delivers seminars around the world and appears regularly on television and radio shows.  He is the Schlarbaum Laureate, Mises Institute, 2011; and has won the Loyola University Research Award (2005, 2008) and the Mises Institute’s Rothbard Medal of Freedom, 2005; and the Dux Academicus award, Loyola University, 2007.

Blurb

In this timely book, Walter E. Block uses classical liberal theory to defend private property rights. Looking at how free enterprise, capitalism and libertarianism are cornerstones of economically prosperous civilizations, Block highlights why private property rights are crucial. Discussing philosophy, libertarian property rights theory, reparations and other property rights issues, this volume is of interest to academics, students, journalists and all those interested in this integral aspect of political economic philosophy.