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Walter E. Block is a scholar affiliated with Loyola University New Orleans in the United States. Their research spans a variety of economic, philosophical, and political topics, with a particular focus on economic theory, institutions, and policy. Block's publication record includes numerous articles in interdisciplinary fields combining economics, philosophy, and political science.

The recent papers authored by Walter E. Block include:

  • Rejoinder to Dominiak on the necessity of easements (2021, Ekonomia/Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Ekonomia)
  • Internal vs. external explanations: A new perspective on the history of economic thought (2021, REVISTA PROCESOS DE MERCADO)
  • Evictionism: the only compromise solution to the abortion controversy (2024, Studia z Historii Filozofii)
  • On Huemer on Ethical Veganism (2020, Studia Humana)
  • Giffen goods, backward bending supply curves, price controls and praxeology; or, who's afraid of the big bad boogie man of giffen goods and backward bending supply curves? Not us (2021, REVISTA PROCESOS DE MERCADO)

Prominent coauthors frequently collaborating with Block include:

  • Ivan Janković
  • Alan G. Futerman
  • William Barnett
  • Robert W. McGee
  • Igor Wysocki

Walter E. Block's work is published notably in the following venues:

  • MEST Journal
  • REVISTA PROCESOS DE MERCADO
  • Studia z Historii Filozofii
  • Studia Humana
  • Polish Journal of Political Science

The scholar has contributed to academic literature primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work also intersects with Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, and Philosophy as subfields of study. More specifically, Block's research topics cover:

  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Economic Theory and Institutions
  • Economic theories and models
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems

In addition to articles, Walter E. Block has published a book titled Action and Choice in 2022, released by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Economic freedom of the world, 1975-1995

    James D. Gwartney;Robert Lawson;Walter Block

  • Defending the undefendable : the pimp, prostitute, scab, slumlord, libeler, moneylender, and other scapegoats in the rogue's gallery of American society

    Walter Block;Murray Newton Rothbard;Rodrigues

  • Cyberslacking, Business Ethics and Managerial Economics

    Walter Block

  • Coase and Demsetz on private property rights

    Walter Block

  • Against fiduciary media

    Hans-Hermann Hoppe;Jörg Guido Hülsmann;Walter Block

  • On Robert Nozick's ‘on Austrian methodology’

    Walter Block

  • Austrian theorizing: Recalling the foundations

    Walter Block

  • The Justification for Taxation in the Public Finance Literature: an Unorthodox View

    Walter Block

  • Academic Freedom and Tenure: Ethical Issues

    Richard DeGeorge;Walter E. Block;Ralph F. Fuchs;Robert W. McGee

  • Public finance texts cannot justify government taxation: A critique

    Walter Block

  • Defending the Undefendable

    Walter Block

  • Hayek's road to serfdom

    Walter E. Block

  • Entropy in the Canadian Economics Profession: Sampling Consensus on the Major Issues

    Walter Block;Michael Walker

  • Ethics, Efficiency, Coasian Property Rights, and Psychic Income: A Reply to Demsetz

    Walter Block

  • Hayek, business cycles and fractional reserve banking: Continuing the de-homogenization process

    Walter Block;Kenneth M. Garschina

  • Total repeal of antitrust legislation: A critique of Bork, Brozen, and Posner

    Walter Block

  • AUSTRIAN MONOPOLY THEORY -A CRITIQUE*

    Walter Block

  • Coase and Van Zandt on Lighthouses

    William Barnett;Walter Block

  • Public Goods and Externalities: The Case of Roads

    Walter E. Block

  • Time Deposits, Dimensions, and Fraud

    William Barnett;Walter E. Block

  • On reparations to blacks for slavery

    Walter E. Block

  • Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government, Parts I & II

    Walter E. Block

  • Economics and the environment : a reconciliation

    Walter Block;Terry Lee Anderson

  • Deposits, Loans, and Banking: Clarifying the Debate

    Philipp Bagus;David Howden;Walter Block

  • Libertarianism, positive obligations and property abandonment: children's rights

    Walter Block

  • The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors

    Walter Block

  • The review of Austrian economics

    Murray Newton Rothbard;Walter Block

  • Against Fiduciary Media

    Walter E. Block;Hans Hermann Hoppe;Jörg Guido Hülsmann

  • Total Repeal of Anti-Trust Legislation: A Critique of Bork, Brozen and Posner

    Walter E. Block

  • The Microsoft Corporation in Collision with Antitrust Law

    William L. Anderson;Walter E. Block;Thomas DiLorenzo;Christopher Westley

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Walter Block

  • Entropy in the Canadian Economics Profession: Sampling Consensus on the Major Issues

    Walter E. Block

  • The Justification of Taxation in the Public Finance Literature: An Unorthodox View

    Walter E. Block

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth E. Boulding University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Boston University
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University
Barry Smith
Barry Smith University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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