O professor Walter Block, mesmo para os poucos brasileiros que o conhecem, apresenta suas ideias de maneira brilhante e polêmica. Em particular neste livro, Block mostra-se excepcionalmente articulado ao tratar de assuntos de abordagem extremamente complexa e delicada. Defendendo o Indefensável prova, com um humor pungente característico de seu autor, que o mercado é absolutamente verdadeiro, imparcial e justo. Em um mundo em que, cada vez mais, as sociedades civilizadas criam valores sobr...

O professor Walter Block tem sido há quatro décadas um dos defensores mais incansáveis e competentes do libertarianismo. O seu trabalho efetivo se manifesta tanto por intermédio de aulas em universidades ou de artigos em periódicos acadêmicos quanto em palestras ou em ensaios de opinião. Desde a publicação do clássico "Defendendo o Indefensável", em 1976, uma característica marcante em todos livros do professor Block é o modo ousado e original como são aplicados consistentemente os princíp...

The U.S. Bishops and Their Critics is a detailed response to the recommendations made by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in the Pastoral Letter "Economic Justice for  All." Though written in 1986, the criticisms made by Dr. Walter Block and his peers are very relevant to the social and economic realities we face today in 2013. This book is a must-read for those interested in libertarianism, theology, and social justice.

Philosophers of Capitalism provides an interdisciplinary approach, attempting to discover the feasibility of an integration of Austrian Economics and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. In the first section of the book, Edward W. Younkins supplies essays presenting the essential ideas of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand. Building upon these essential ideas, the second portion of the book brings together scholarly perspectives from top academics, analyzing Menger, von ...

A collection of essays, articles and papers that discuss secession from a legal, constitutional and historical perspective.

Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s li...

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Wie kaum ein Autor wurde Walter Kempowski von den beiden deutschen Staaten geprägt. "Im Block" erzählt von einer Zwangsgemeinschaft am Rande der Gesellschaft.1948 wird Kempowski wegen angeblicher Spionage zu 25 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Nach acht Jahren im DDR-Zuchthaus Bautzen kommt er frei. 1969 erscheint sein literarischer Bericht dazu."Im Block", das ist ein Leben in drangvoller Enge, isoliert, inhaltsarm. Die Häftlinge bilden eine Gesellschaft, geprägt vom Eingeschlossense...

Water covers some 75% of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25%, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1% of world GDP, the latter 99% plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are more people located on land than water. But a more important explanation is that while land is privately owned, water is unowned (with the exception of a few small lakes and ponds), or governmentally owned (rivers, large lakes). This gives rise to the tragedy of the commons: wh...

In Free Enterprise Environmentalism, Walter E. Block argues that laissez-faire capitalism can address climate change more effectively than socialism and government regulation. Block advocates for the role of markets, free enterprise, limited government, and private property rights in service of environmental protections. Covering topics such as extinction, overpopulation, pollution, and resources exhaustion, this volume offers alternate solutions to environmental degradation than have been...

Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.We think the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be more agile, more lean, more schooled, more, mor...