Walter Block Publications

This page provides links to online Block publications, and information on selected other publications (e.g., some books). More comprehensive lists are linked immediately below.

JUMPS

Defending the Undefendable: The Pimp, Prostitute, Scab, Slumlord, Libeler, Moneylender, and Other Scapegoats in the Rogue’s Gallery of American Society (New York: Fleet Press, first printing 1976, second printing 1980, third printing 1985; New York: Fox and Wilkes, fourth printing, 1991).



Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable. Toh Tuck Link, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 2008.

Some books available in Large Print format here.

General Economics and Teaching

General Economics

General

Role of Economics; Role of Economists; Market for Economists

Horton,Marshall and Walter Block, Was Marx an Adjunct? An Analysis of the Proposition that Part-time Faculty are Economically Exploited Texas Education Review, Vol. 1, No. IV, Winter 2002, pp. 43-46

McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block. 1997. “Academic Tenure: An Economic Critique,” in DeGeorge, Richard T., ed. Academic Freedom And Tenure: Ethical Issues, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, a reprint of McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block. 1991. “Academic Tenure: A Law and Economics Analysis,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring, pp. 545-563

Relation of Economics to Social Values

Sociology in Economics

Block, Walter, 6/7/02, The Importance of Ideology

Rothbard, Murray N. and Walter Block, 1987, Introductory Editorial Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 1, pp. ix-xiii

Economics Education and Teaching of Economics

History of Economic Thought and Methodology

History of Thought: Individuals

Economic Methodology

Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics

Block, Walter and Michael A. Walker, Entropy in the Canadian Economics Profession: Sampling Consensus on the Major Issues Canadian Public Policy, Vol. XIV, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 137-150

Microeconomics

Market Structure and Pricing

Perfect Competition

Perfect Competition A Case of Market-Failure. Corporate Ownership and Control, Summer 2006, Vol 2, No 4 – pp 70 – 75 (with Barnett and Saliba)

Welfare Economics

Ronald Coase and Social Cost

Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

Constitutional Economics

Economic Models of Political Processes: Elections, Legislatures and Voting Behavior

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment

Prices, Business Fluctuations and Cycles

Money and Interest Rates

Monetary Policy, Central Banking and the Supply of Money and Credit

International Economics

Trade

International Migration

International Finance

Financial Economics

Public Economics

Structure and Scope of Government

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies

Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs

National Security and War

Health, Education and Welfare

Analysis of Health Care Markets

Government Education Policy

Welfare and Poverty

Labor and Demographic Economics

Demographic Economics

Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation

Particular Labor Markets

Block, Walter, Unisinos: Perspectiva Economica, Vol. 35, No. 112, December 2000, pp. 81-93

Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining

Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies

Discrimination

Law and Economics

Basic Areas of Law

General

Block, Walter and William Barnett II, “Continuums” Journal Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics, Vol. 1, June 2008, pp. 151-166

Block, Walter. “Reply to ‘Against Libertarian Legalism’ by Frank van Dun,” Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 1-30

Contract Law

Counterfeiting

Criminal Law

Gun Control

Blackmail

Abortion Issues

Regulation and Business Law

Other Substantive Areas of Law

Industrial Organization

General

Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises: Privatization

Block, Walter, Radical Privatization and Other Libertarian Conundrums The International Journal of Politics and Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2002, pp. 165-175

Antitrust Policy

Regulation and Industrial Policy

Industry Studies: Services

Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities

Weber, Jake and Walter Block, “Privatizing Air Transport,” Business Journal forEntrepreneurs, No. 4, 2008, pp. 102-114

Dirmeyer, Jenny, Fred Tulley and Walter Block, Should Airlines be Subsidized in an Emergency? The Libertarian View The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Spring 2002, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 65-81

Business Administration and Business Economics, Marketing, Accounting

Business Administration

Marketing and Advertising

Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth

Economic Development

Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

Economy-wide Country Studies

Economic Systems

Capitalist Systems

Property Rights

Political Economy

Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Renewable Resources and Conservation; Environmental Management

Energy

Environmental Economics

Urban, Rural and Regional Economics

General Regional Economics

Production Analysis and Firm Location

Housing Supply and Markets

Transportation Systems

Regional Government Analysis

Land Use and Other Regulations

Block, Walter, Preface Zoning: Its Costs and Relevance for the 1980s, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 1980, pp. xi-xx; reprinted as Is Zoning Obsolete?, Free Urban Land Markets,in ERC Transcript Reprint Series, December 1980, No. 12

Other Special Topics

General

Cultural Economics

Economics of the Arts and Literature

Religion (Jewish)

Religion (Catholic)

Religion (Christianity)

Working Papers

Book Reviews

Other Publications