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    On Huemer on Ethical Veganism.Walter E. Block - 2020 - Studia Humana 9 (2):53-68.
    Huemer [33] argues against the killing of animals. I offer a critical libertarian analysis of his claim.
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    Time deposits, dimensions, and fraud.William Barnett & Walter E. Block - 2008 - Journal of Business Ethics 88 (4):711-716.
    We stipulate, arguendo, that fractional-reserve-demand deposit banking is per se fraudulent. We ask whether or not time deposit banking can also be illicit, and answer in the positive, if there is a mismatch between the time dimensions of deposits and loans. To wit, if an intermediary borrows short and lends long.
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    Time Deposits, Dimensions, and Fraud.I. I. Barnett & Walter E. Block - 2008 - Journal of Business Ethics 88 (4):711-716.
    We stipulate, arguendo, that fractional-reserve-demand deposit banking is per se fraudulent. We ask whether or not time deposit banking can also be illicit, and answer in the positive, if there is a mismatch between the time dimensions of deposits and loans. To wit, if an intermediary borrows short and lends long.
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  4. (1 other version)Toward a libertarian theory of inalienability: a critique of Rothbard, Barnett, Smith, Kinsella, Gordon, and Epstein.Walter Block - 2003 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 17 (2):39-86.
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    (1 other version)Libertarian Punishment Theory and Unjust Enrichment.Walter E. Block - 2019 - Journal of Business Ethics 154 (1):103-108.
    What is the proper punishment from the perspective of the libertarian philosophy? More specifically, in what way, if at all, may a thief benefit from his robbery? The present essay attempts to wrestle with these challenging questions.
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    Rejoinder to Bagus and Howden on Borrowing Short and Lending Long.I. I. Barnett & Walter E. Block - 2011 - Journal of Business Ethics 100 (2):229-238.
    In Barnett and Block (J Bus Ethics 88(4):711–716, 2009a), the present authors claim that borrowing short and lending long is fraudulent, and thus ought to be prohibited on legal grounds. Bagus and Howden (J Bus Ethics 90(3):399, 2009) take issue with our ethical analysis. The present paper is our response to these authors; it is an attempt to defend Barnett and Block (J Bus Ethics 88(4):711–716, 2009a) against the very interesting and important, although we believe, erroneous, criticisms of Bagus and (...)
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    Rejoinder to Bagus and Howden on Borrowing Short and Lending Long.William Barnett & Walter E. Block - 2011 - Journal of Business Ethics 100 (2):229-238.
    In Barnett and Block :711–716, 2009a), the present authors claim that borrowing short and lending long is fraudulent, and thus ought to be prohibited on legal grounds. Bagus and Howden :399, 2009) take issue with our ethical analysis. The present paper is our response to these authors; it is an attempt to defend Barnett and Block :711–716, 2009a) against the very interesting and important, although we believe, erroneous, criticisms of Bagus and Howden :399, 2009).
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    On Robert Nozick's 'on austrian methodology'.Walter Block - 1980 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 23 (4):397 – 444.
    Austrian economics - the school of thought associated with Carl Menger, Frederick von Weiser, Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, and in this century, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray N. Rothbard, and Israel Kirzner - is based on a framework of methodological principles and assumptions much at variance with those of traditional or 'orthodox' economists. Robert Nozick, in his 'On Austrian Methodology', focuses attention on the most fundamental features of this framework, and subjects them to a thoroughgoing and scathing analysis. Singled out (...)
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    (1 other version)Teaching business ethics: A 'classificationist' approach.Walter Block & Paul F. Cwik - 2007 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 16 (2):98–106.
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    Evictionism and Libertarianism.Walter E. Block - 2014 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39 (3):248-257.
    There is a new sheriff in town on the abortion question. It is called evictionism. It diverges, philosophically, from both the pro-life and the pro-choice positions. It assumes that the birth of a human being starts with the fertilized egg but claims that the unwanted baby is a trespasser that may be evicted in the gentlest manner possible.
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    Public goods and externalities: The case of roads.Walter Block - 1983 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 7 (1):1-34.
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    Rejoinder to Huemer on Animal Rights.Walter E. Block - 2021 - Studia Humana 10 (4):66-77.
    Heumer and I debate animal rights, utilitarianism, libertarianism, morality and philosophy. We agree that suffering is a problem, and diverge, widely, on how to deal with it. I maintain that this author’s reputation as a libertarian, let alone an intellectual leader of this movement, is problematic. Why? That is because libertarianism, properly understood, is a theory of intra-human rights; this philosophy says nothing about right from an extra-human perspective, Heumer to the contrary notwithstanding. That is to say, he is improperly (...)
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    The Ethics of Tax Evasion.Philipp Bagus, Walter Block, Marian Eabrasu, David Howden & Jérémie Rostan - 2011 - Business and Society Review 116 (3):375-401.
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    The Economics of Insider Trading: A Free Market Perspective.Taylor Smith & Walter E. Block - 2016 - Journal of Business Ethics 139 (1):47-53.
    We deny that asymmetrical information is a market failure. In order to make this case, we subject to critical scrutiny the strongest case for this thesis: the view that laws prohibiting insider trading are viable, necessary, or compatible with the rule of law.
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  15. David Friedman and Libertarianism: A Critique.Walter Block - 2011 - Libertarian Papers 3.
    David Friedman attacks deontological or principled libertarianism from a utilitarian point of view. The present essay is an attempt to refute his critique of this philosophy, and to cast aspersions on the utilitarian version of libertarianism he favors.
     
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    A critique of the legal and philosophical case for rent control.Walter Block - 2002 - Journal of Business Ethics 40 (1):75 - 90.
    Rent control is an economic abomination. It diverts investments away from residential rent units, it leads to their deterioration, it is responsible for urban decay such as in the South Bronx, it does not help poor tenants, it is a horrendous means of income redistribution. Yet this economic regulation is beloved of intellectuals (hot beds of pro rent control sentiment are Berkeley, Ann Arbor and Cambridge) particularly in the legal and philosophical communities. The present article is dedicated to an exploration (...)
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    A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration.Walter Block - 1998 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 13 (2):167-186.
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    The crime of blackmail: A libertarian critique.Walter Block - 1999 - Criminal Justice Ethics 18 (2):3-10.
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    The Detrimental Side Effects of Minimum Wage Laws.Claire Hovenga, Devaja Naik & Walter E. Block - 2013 - Business and Society Review 118 (4):463-487.
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    Academic Freedom and Tenure: Ethical Issues.Richard DeGeorge, Walter E. Block, Ralph F. Fuchs, Robert W. McGee, Richard Rorty & John R. Searle - 1997 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Academic freedom and tenure, both cherished institutions of higher education, are currently under attack by many both outside and within the academy. Richard DeGeorge argues that they can be defended on ethical grounds only if they are joined with appropriate accountability, publicly articulated and defended standards, and conscientious enforcement of these standards by academic institutions and the members of the academic community.
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  21. On reparations to blacks for slavery.Walter Block - 2002 - Human Rights Review 3 (4):53-73.
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    Austrian monopoly theory-a critique.Walter Block - 1977 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 1 (4):271-279.
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  23. Continuums.Walter Block & William Barnett Ii - 2008 - Etica E Politica 10 (1):151-166.
    There are continuum problems in political economy. There are no objective non-debatable solutions to any of them. All answers to them are arbitrary. Responding to these challenges are, ideally, the responsibility of courts, juries, etc.
     
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    Coase and Demsetz on private property rights.Walter Block - 1977 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 1 (2):111-115.
  25. Free Market Transportation: Denationalizing The Roads.Walter Block - 1979 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 3 (2):209-238.
     
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    Libertarianism vs. libertinism.Walter Block - 1994 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 11 (1):117-128.
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    Roads, Brtoges, Sunlight, and Private Property Rights.Mattew Block & Walter Block - 1996 - Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 7 (2-3):351-362.
  28. On Immigration: Reply to Hoppe.Anthony Gregory & Walter Block - 2007 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 21 (3):25-42.
     
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    Hoppe, Kinsella and Rothbard II on immigration: a critique.Walter Block - 2010 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 22 (1):593-623.
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  30. Toward a Libertarian Theory of Guilt and Punishment for the Crime of Statism.Walter Block - 2010 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 22 (1):665.
     
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  31. Van Dun on Freedom and Property: A Critique.Walter Block - 2010 - Libertarian Papers 2.
    Van Dun rejects private road ownership on the ground that owners will trap homeowners whose property abuts their thoroughfares. The present paper rejects this claim, and demonstrates that a free enterprise system of private ownership will maximize the welfare of householders, not minimize it.
     
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  32. Libertarianism is Unique and Belongs Neither to the Right nor the Left: A Critique of the Views of Long, Holcombe, and Baden on the Left, Hoppe, Feser, and Paul of the Right.Walter Block - 2010 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 22 (1):127-170.
  33. Libertarianism vs Objectivism: A Response to Peter Schwartz.Walter Block - 2003 - Reason Papers 26:39-62.
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    Toward a libertarian theory of blackmail.Walter Block - 2001 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 15 (2):55-88.
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    Banks, Insurance Companies, and Discrimination1.Walter Block, Nicholas Snow & Edward Stringham - 2008 - Business and Society Review 113 (3):403-419.
    This article examines some of the reasons why banks and insurance companies have been accused of discrimination, and shows that this is by and large a false accusation. Economic analysis demonstrates that racial discrimination is not a profit‐maximizing strategy. Actually, unwise public policies are actually precluding many consumers from the market.
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  36. Forthcoming.“How Not to Defend the Market,”.Walter E. Block - forthcoming - Journal of Libertarian Studies.
     
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  37. Rejoinder to Murphy and Callahan on Hoppe's argumentation ethics.Walter Block - 2010 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 22 (1):631-639.
     
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  38. Rejoinder to Kinsella and Tinsley on incitement, causation, aggression and praxeology.Walter Block - 2010 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 22 (1):641-664.
     
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    Response to Hewitt on Abortion.Walter E. Block - 2023 - Studia Humana 12 (4):23-33.
    The defense argument in favor of abortion sees the fetus as an invader, a trespasser, someone against whom violence is justified, since this very young person (the fetus) has initiated violence against his mother. Hewitt [30] rejects this argument. The present paper maintains the justification of this defense argument. My perspective is based on the private property rights of the mother. She owns her person. It is as if her body is her house, and a trespasser has invaded it. Surely, (...)
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  40. The Human Body Shield.Walter Block - 2010 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 22 (1):625-630.
  41. Levin on Feminism and Freedom.Walter Block - 1991 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 10 (1):97-106.
  42. How not to defend the market: Acritique of Easton, Miron, bovard, Friedman and Boudreaux.Walter Block - 2010 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 22 (1):581-592.
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    A Comment on 'The Extraordinary Claim of Praxeology' by Professor Gutiérrez.Walter Block - 1973 - Theory and Decision 3 (4):377.
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    Cyberslacking, business ethics and managerial economics.Walter Block - 2001 - Journal of Business Ethics 33 (3):225 - 231.
    Often, new technology brings in its train unprecedented problems. As far as computers, e-mail and the internet are concerned, this certainly holds true in many arenas. But there is one aspect of this new technology which does not present additional difficulties: cyber-slacking. The managerial challenges posed by employees using these amenities for job search, shopping sprees, personal relationships, in a word, general goofing off, have long ago already been overcome by employers. There is 'nothing new under the sun' in at (...)
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    Constitutional economics and the calculus of consent.Walter Block & Thomas DiLorenzo - 2001 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 15 (3):37-56.
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    Hayek's road to serfdom.Walter Block - 1996 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 12 (2):339-365.
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    Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property: Reply to Tullock.Walter Block - 1998 - Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 8 (2-3):315-326.
  48. Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government, Part 1.Walter Block - 2004 - Reason Papers 27:113-130.
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    The Feminist Competition/Cooperation Dichotomy.Deborah Walker, Jerry W. Dauterive, Elyssa Schultz & Walter Block - 2004 - Journal of Business Ethics 55 (3):243-254.
    Feminist literature sometimes posits that competition and cooperation are opposites. This dichotomy is important in that it is often invoked in order to explain why mainstream economics has focused on market activity to the exclusion of non-market activity, and why this fascination or focus is sexist. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the competition/cooperation dichotomy is false. Once the dichotomy is dissolved, those activities which are seen as competitive (masculine) and those which are seen as cooperative (feminine) (...)
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  50. Inchoate Crime, Accessories, and Constructive Malice in Libertarian Law.Ben O'Neill & Walter Block - 2013 - Libertarian Papers 5:241-271.
    Inchoate crime consists of acts that are regarded as crimes despite the fact that they are only partial or incomplete in some respect. This includes acts that do not succeed in physically harming the victim or are only indirectly related to such a result. Examples include attempts (as in attempted murder that does not eventuate in the killing of anyone), conspiracy (in which case the crime has only been planned, not yet acted out) and incitement (where the inciter does not (...)
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