Walter E. Block

Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics and Professor of Economics

Address:
6363 St. Charles Avenue, Box 15
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504)864-7934
Fax: (504)864-7970
Email: wblock@loyno.edu
Office: Miller 318

• Education
• Academic/Industry Experience
• Course Descriptions
• Publications
• Curriculum Vitae

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• Ilana Mercer
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• West Coast Libertarian Foundation
• Avelloso
• dmoz
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• LewRockwell.com
• Mises
• Hendry

The Tamar Yonah Radio Show clip with Dr. Block

Education

• 1972 - Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University; thesis title: "The Economics of Rent Control in the U.S.,"
• 1964 - B.A., Philosophy, Brooklyn College

Academic/Industry Experience

• 8/01 - present: Professor of Economics and holder of the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics, College of Business Administration, Loyola University New Orleans.
• 8/97-8/01: Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Central Arkansas, Conway AR 72035
• 9/91-5/97: Associate Professor, Economics Department, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610
• 6/79-8/91: Senior Economist and Director, The Fraser Institute, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6E 3M1
• 9/75-6/79: Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102
• 9/71-6/74: Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Baruch College, C.U.N.Y., New York, NY 10010

Course Descriptions

• Econ H233-033 Syllabus
• Econ B330-001 Syllabus

Publications, Proceedings, and Papers

All Publications

Refereed Journals, Edited

• The Review of Austrian Economics , co-editor (with Murray N. Rothbard), from Vol. I, 1987 to Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1994; co-editor (with Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Joseph Salerno) from Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1995 to Vol. 10, No. 2, 1997.
• Cultural Dynamics , guest editor, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1992; Vol. 7, No. 3, November, 1995; Vol. 8, No. 3, November, 1996
• The Journal of Labor Economics , guest co-editor (with Michael A. Walker), Vol. 11, No. 1, Part 2, 1993.
• The Journal of Libertarian Studies , co-editor (with David Gordon, Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Joseph Salerno), from Vol. XI, No. 2, 1994, to Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter 1998-1999.
• The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , co-editor (with Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Joseph Salerno), from Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1998 to Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1999.
• Managerial Finance , guest co-editor, “Managerial Finance A Multi-Dimensional Enterprise.” Vol. 30, No. 2, 2004.
• Call for papers. I am editing a special issue on Katrina for the IJSE. For more info: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijse/cfp_katrina.jsp

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

Accepted and Forthcoming

• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Hoppe, Kinsella and Rothbard II on Immigration: A Critique.” Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Saliba, Michael, Nick Capaldi and Walter Block. Forthcoming, 2007. “Justice: Plain Old, and Distributive; Rejoinder to Charles Taylor.” Human Rights Review. vol. 8, issue 3, April-June.
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Rejoinder to Murphy and Callahan on Hoppe's Argumentation Ethics” Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Whitehead, Roy, Walter Block and Patrick Tinsley. Forthcoming. “Christian Landlords and the Free Exercise Clause: Sinners Need Not Apply,” The Akron Law Review ; http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/Christian%20Landlords.doc
• Block, Walter and Jerry Dauterive. Forthcoming. “Political Correctness and The Economics of Higher Education.” Humanomics . Vol. 23, No. 4.
• Barnett, William and Walter Block. Forthcoming. “ Saving and Investment: A Praxeological Approach. ” New Perspectives on Political Economy
• Alston, Wilton D. and Walter Block . Forthcoming. “Reparations, Once Again.” Human Rights Review
• Nedzel, Nadia and Walter Block . Forthcoming. “Eminent Domain: A Legal and Economic Critique” University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class . 
• Nedzel, Nadia and Walter Block . Forthcoming. “Eminent Domain: A Legal and Economic Analysis” Government Law and Policy Journal; http://www.nysba.org/
• Barnett, William and Walter Block. Forthcoming. “Reply to Hummel on Austrian Business Cycle Theory.” Reason Papers
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “My Case of and for Coauthoring.” Dialogue
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Plumb Line Libertarianism: A Critique of Hoppe.” Reason Papers, Vol. 29
• Huebert, J. H. and Walter Block . Forthcoming. “ In Defense of Advertising in Space” Proceedings of the 49th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space ; http://adage.com/article?article_id=112401
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “On Holcomb.” Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Gregory, Anthony and Walter Block . Forthcoming. “On Immigration: Reply to Hoppe.” Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming, 2007. "Alienability: Reply to Kuflik.” Humanomics Vol. 23, No. 3
• Greene, Zoe, Sally Henry, Coby Nathanson and Walter Block. Forthcoming, 2007. "Negative Impacts of Minimum Wage and anti Sweatshop Legislation" Humanomics Vol. 23, No. 2
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Terri Schiavo: A Libertarian Analysis” Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “ Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is Not a Liberal View, and a Good Thing, Too; Reply to Samuel Freeman” Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. "The Human Body Shield" Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. "How Not To Defend the Market" Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Libertarianism is unique; it 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 on the right.” Journal of Libertarian Studies; http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/block15.pdf
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Libertarianism is unique: Reply to critics.” Journal of Libertarian Studies
• Barnett, William and Walter Block. Forthcoming. “Coase and Van Zandt on Lighthouses,” Public Finance Review
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Andrei Shleifer on Government: A Rejoinder,” Procesos De Mercado: Revista Europea De Economia Politica
• Barnett, William and Walter Block. Forthcoming. "On Say's Law, Keynes's Money, and Post Keynesians," Procesos De Mercado: Revista Europea De Economia Politica
• Block, Walter, Christopher Westley and Alex Padilla. Forthcoming. "Internal vs. external explanations: a new perspective on the history of economic thought," Procesos De Mercado: Revista Europea De Economia Politica
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. “Rejoinder to Kinsella and Tinsley on Incitement, Causation, Aggression and Praxeology” Journal of Libertarian Studies

2007

• Block, Walter and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr . 2007. “ Katrina and the Future of New Orleans ,” Telos , Vol. 139, Summer, pp. 170-185; http://141.164.133.3/exchange/walterblock/Deleted%20Items/TELOS%20139:%20Digital%20copy%20of%20your%20article.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_Block%20and%20Rockwell%20-%20Katrina.pdf/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/Block%20and%20Rockwell%20-%20Katrina.pdf?attach=1
• Block, Walter and Paul Cwik. 2007. “Teaching Business Ethics: A Classificationist Approach” Business Ethics: A European Review. Vol. 16, No. 2 April, pp. 98-107; http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/beer/16/2
• Block, Walter, Jerry Dauterive and John Levendis. 2007. “Globalization and the Concept of Subsistence Wages.” Journal of Income Distribution. Vol. 16, No. 1, March; pp. 74-88; http://www.jid-online.org/
• Block, Walter. 2007. “Rejoinder to Holcombe on the Inevitability of Government.” Journal of Libertarian Studies , Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, pp. 49-60
• Block, Walter. 2007. “Anarchism and Minarchism; No Rapprochement Possible: Reply to Tibor Machan,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, pp. 91-99
• Block, Walter, Peter Klein and Per Henrik Hansen. 2007. “The Division of Labor under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April, Vol. 66, Issue 2, pp. 457-464; http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ajes/66/2 ; http://141.164.133.3/exchange/walterblock/Inbox/Re:%20link_x003F_-2.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_j.1536-7150.2007.00520.pdf/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/j.1536-7150.2007.00520.pdf?attach=1
• Huebert, J. H. and Walter Block. 2007. “Space Environmentalism, Property Rights, and the Law.” Memphis Law Review , Vol. 37, No. 2, Winter, pp. 281-309
• Epstein, Marcus, Walter Block and Tom Woods Jr. 2007. “Chesterton and Belloc: A Critique.” Independent Review Spring, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 579-594
• Block, Walter and William Barnett, II. 2007. “On Laidler on Austrian Business Cycle Theory.” Review of Austrian Economics ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11138-006-0004-y
• Block, Walter. 2007. " Reply to Caplan on Austrian Economic Metho dology" Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 4, No. 2, November, pp. 312-zz.
• http://www.virtusinterpress.org/additional_files/journ_coc/issues/COC_(Volume_4_Issue_3_Spring_2007_Continued2).pdf
• Block, Walter and William Barnett II. 2007. “The Austrian Tent? A Rejoinder to Gallaway and Vedder” Corporate Ownership & Control , Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 232-zz;
• http://www.virtusinterpress.org/additional_files/journ_coc/issues/COC_(Volume_4_Issue_3_Spring_2007_Continued).pdf
• Saliba, Michael, Walter Block and John Levendis. 2007. “Tariffs on Steel: Special Interests vs. Free Enterprise,” The Indian Journal of Economics and Business: Special Issue on Economic Development, Transition Economics, and Globalization: Austrian and Public Choice Perspectives , Vol. 5, Special Issue, pp. 139-151.
• Schaeffer, Emily and Walter Block . 2007. “The Economics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Casualty of Leasing Law or Candidate for Privatization” Energy and Environment . Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 75-85
• D'Amico, Dan and Walter Block . 2007. “A Legal and Economic Analysis of Graffiti” Humanomics Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 29-38; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=24713

2006

• Barnett, William and Walter Block . 2006. “Spreading the Benefits of Productivity Increases: Price Increases, Decreases, or Both? A Critique of Baumol on Subsidies to the Arts” Dialogue . Vol. 4, pp. 38-51; http://www.uni-svishtov.bg/dialog/2006/4.06.WB.pdf
• Barnett, William and Walter Block . 2006. “On Hayekian Triangles.” Procesos De Mercado: Revista Europea De Economia Politica ; Vol. III, No. 2, Fall, pp. 39-141 http://www.unioneditorial.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=196&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=27
• Delery, Jeanette and Walter Block . 2006. “Corporate Welfare,” Markets and Morality; Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall, pp. 337-346; http://www.acton.org/publicat/m_and_m/new/index.php?mm_id=6 ; http://www.acton.org/publicat/m_and_m/new/article.php?article=37; http://www.acton.org/publicat/m_and_m/pdf/9277645.pdf
• Block, Walter and Barnett, William. 2006. “Rejoinder to Critics of Laissez -Faire Capitalism.” The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 23, Fall, pp. 17-20
• Barnett, William and Walter Block . 2006. “On exchange, monetary credit transactions, barter, time preference, interest rates, and productivity.” Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics ; Vol. VIII, No. 2, pp. 116-126; http://www.units.it/~etica/2006_2/BARNETTBLOCK.pdf; http://www.units.it/~etica/
• Block, Walter, Art Carden and Stephen Carson. 2006. “Ex ante and ex post: What Does Rod Stewart Really Know Now?” Business and Society Review . Vol. 111, No. 4, Winter, pp. 427-440; http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/basr/111/4 ; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=943532
• Friedman, Milton and Walter Block . 2006. “Fanatical, Not Reasonable: A Short Correspondence Between Walter Block and Milton Friedman.” Journal of Libertarian Studies , Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer, pp. 61-80
• Morrel, Joseph, Walter Block and John Levendis . 2006. “Nuclear Power.” Journal of Business Ethics ; Vol. 67, No. 1, August, pp. 37-49; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9003-y
• Barnett, William and Walter Block . 2006. “ Tyler Cowen on Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Critique.” New Perspectives on Political Economy , Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 26-84; http://pcpe.libinst.cz/nppe/2_2/nppe2_2_2.pdf ; http://pcpe.libinst.cz/nppe/
• Barnett, William II, and Walter Block . 2006. "Rothbard on V shaped average and
  total cost curves." Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall, pp. 61-66
• Block, Walter and Robert Lawson. 2006. “Promotion, Turnover and Preemptive Wage Offers: Comment on Bernhardt and Scoones.” Humanomics . Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 133-138; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=24225
• Block, Walter. 2006. “Paul Craig Roberts on Empirical Measures of Economic Freedom: A Rejoinder,” International Journal of Social Economics. Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 481-490; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=23874
• Kilchrist, Erica and Walter Block . 2006. “Distributive Justice.” International Journal of Social Economics , Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 102-110; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=23435
• Barnett, William and Walter Block . 2006. “Some Thoughts on Price Deflation.” New Perspectives on Political Economy . Vol. 2, No. 1, June; pp. 1-12; http://pcpe.libinst.cz/nppe/index.php
• Block, Walter. 2006. “Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government, Part II” Reason Papers, Vol. 28, Spring, pp. 85-109; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block_radical-libertarianism-rp.pdf ; (death penalty justified)
• Block, Walter. 2006. “Katrina: Private Enterprise, the Dead Hand of the Past, and Weather Socialism; An Analysis in Economic Geography.” Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography ; Vol. 9, No. 2, June, pp. 231-241; reprinted in ‘Post-Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Analysis and Social Implications'– edited by Harry Richardson, Peter Gordon and James Moore. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Block, Walter, Stephan Kinsella and Roy Whitehead. 2006. “The duty to defend advertising injuries caused by junk faxes: an analysis of privacy, spam, detection and blackmail.” Whittier Law Review , Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 925-949
• Block, Walter. 2006. "Coase and Kelo : Ominous Parallels and Reply to Lott on Rothbard on Coase ," Whittier Law Review , Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 997-1022
• Block, Walter, William Barnett II and Joseph Salerno. 2006. “Relationship between wealth or income and time preference is empirical, not apodictic: critique of Rothbard and Hoppe,” Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 69-80; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11138-006-6094-8 ; http://www.gmu.edu/rae/archives/VOL19_1_2006/4-Block_Barnett_Salerno.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2006. “Epstein on alienation: a rejoinder” International Journal of Social Economics; Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 241-260; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=23531
• Rome , Gregory and Walter Block . 2006. “Schoolhouse Socialism.” Journal of Instructional Psychology , Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 83-88
• Barnett, William II and Walter Block . 2006. "On Gallaway and Vedder on Stabilization Policy" Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics . Vol. 9, No. 1, spring, pp. 57-81; http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae9_1_5.pdf ;
• Barnett, William II, and Walter Block . 2005-2006. “Mises, Rothbard and Salerno on Costs.” Corporate Ownership & Control, Winter, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 203-205; http://www.virtusinterpress.org/additional_files/journ_coc/issues/COC_(Volume_3_Issue_2_Winter_2005-2006_Continued).pdf

2005

• Barnett, William and Walter Block . 2005. “On the Use and Misuse of the Laffer Curve” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, pp. 139-152
• Barnett, William II and Walter Block . 2005. “In defense of fiduciary media— a comment; or, what's wrong with “clown” or play money?” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics ; Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer, pp. 55-69
• Block, Walter, William Barnett II and Gene Callahan. 2005. “The Paradox of Coase as a Defender of Free Markets,” NYU Journal of Law & Liberty , Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 1075-1095; http://141.164.133.3/exchange/walterblock/Inbox/More%20block%20Articles%20e-mail%20%233.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_3_The%20Paradox%20of%20Coase%20as%20a%20Defender%20of%20Free%20Markets%20-%20NYU%20Journal%20of%20Law%20%26%20Liberty,%20Vol%201,%20No.%203%20-%20pp%201075%20-%201095%20.pdf/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/The%20Paradox%20of%20Coase%20as%20a%20Defender%20of%20Free%20Markets%20-%20NYU%20Journal%20of%20Law%20%26%20Liberty,%20Vol%201,%20No.%203%20-%20pp%201075%20-%201095%20.pdf?attach=1
• Block, Walter v. Richard Epstein. 2005. “Debate on Eminent Domain.” NYU Journal of Law & Liberty , Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 1144-1169
• Block, Walter. 2005. “Value Freedom, Laissez Faire, Mises and Rothbard: A comment on Prof. Gunning,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology , Vol. 64, No. 3, July, pp. 919-938
• Barnett, William II and Walter Block. 2005. “Professor Tullock on Austrian Business Cycle Theory,” Advances in Austrian Economics , Vol. 8, pp. 431-443
• Block, Walter and William Barnett II. 2005. “Austrian Economics, Praxeology and Intervention,” Advances in Austrian Economics . Vol. 8, pp 87-104
• Block, Walter and William Barnett II. 2005. “The economic case for laissez faire capitalism.” Humanomics . Vol. 21, No. 3-4, pp. 49-62; http://proquest.umi.com/; http://proquest.umi.com/; translated into Spanish as: “"El fundamento económico del capitalismo laissez faire," Revista de Economía y Derecho , 2006, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 81-88.
• Block, Walter and William Barnett II. 2005. “A Positive Programme for Laissez -Faire Capitalism,” The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 19, Autumn, pp. 31-42;
• Barnett, William, Walter Block and Michael Saliba. 2005. "Perfect Competition: A Case of ‘Market-Failure,'” Corporate Ownership & Control . Vol. 2, No. 4, summer, pp. 70-75
• Block, Walter. 2005. “Government and Market: A Critique of Professor James Buchanan's What Should Economists Do? ” Corporate Ownership & Control , Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall, pp. 81-87; http://141.164.133.3/exchange/walterblock/Inbox/More%20Block%20Articles%20E-mail%20%234.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_Gov.%20and%20Market,%20critique%20of%20james%20buchanan,%20whay%20should%20econ%20do,%20Corp%20Own%20and%20Contr,%20vol%203%20issue%201%20fall%202005.pdf/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/Gov.%20and%20Market,%20critique%20of%20james%20buchanan,%20whay%20should%20econ%20do,%20Corp%20Own%20and%20Contr,%20vol%203%20issue%201%20fall%202005.pdf?attach=1
• Block, Walter and Matthew Block. 2005. “ Private Parks and Walkways Under Free Enterprise.” Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography. Vol. 8, No. 2, June, pp. 201-208.
• Christie Laporte, and Walter Block. 2005. “A Free-Market Environmentalist Approach to Genetically Modified Foods.” Santa Clara Journal of International Law; Vol. III, Issue, No. 2. http://www.scu.edu/scjil/current/index.shtml; http://www.scu.edu/scjil/archive/v3_BlockAbstract.shtml ; http://www.scu.edu/scjil/archive/v3_BlockArticle.shtml
• Block, Walter. 2005. “Governmental Inevitability: Reply to Holcombe.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, 71-93; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/19_3/19_3_4.pdf
• Barnett, William II and Walter Block .  2005.  “Money: Capital Good, Consumers' Good, or (Media of) Exchange Good?” Review of Austrian Economics. 18 (2): 179-194; http://www.springerlink.com/; http://us.f502.mail.yahoo.com/; http://www.gmu.edu/rae/archives/VOL18_2_2005/4_Barnett.pdf
• Block, Walter and Roy Whitehead. 2005. “Compromising the Uncompromisable: A Private Property Rights Approach to Resolving the Abortion Controversy,” Appalachian Law Review, 4 (2) 1-45; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block-whitehead_abortion-2005.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2005. “Ayn Rand and Austrian Economics: Two Peas in a Pod.” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring, pp. 259-269
• Block, Walter. 2005. “Rejoinder to Caplan on Bayesian Economics,” Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter, pp. 79-95; http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/003654.asp

2004

• Tinsley, Patrick, N. Stephan Kinsella and Walter Block. 2004. “In Defense of Evidence and Against the Exclusionary Rule: A Libertarian Approach” Southern University Law Review , Vo. 32, No. 1, Fall, pp. 63-80; http://www.kinsellalaw.com/
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block. 2004. “The Boy Scouts, Freedom of Association and the Right to Discriminate: A Legal, Philosophical and Economic Analysis,” Oklahoma City Law Review , Vol. 29, No. 3, Fall, pp. 851-882; http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/Boy%20Scout%20Discrimniation.doc
• Block, Walter. 2004. "A comparison of Economic Correctness and Political Correctness" “Is the Austrian School of Economics a Victim of Economic Correctness?” Humanomics. Vol. 20, No. 3-4, pp 14-25
•  Block, Walter. 2004. “Are Alienability and the Apriori of Argument Logically Incompatible?” Dialogue , Vol. 1, No. 1. http://www.uni-svishtov.bg/dialog/2004/256gord6.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2004. Austrian Law and Economics: The Contributions of Adolf Reinach and Murray Rothbard, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter, pp. 69-85; http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae7_4_5.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2004. “The Jews and Capitalism: A love-hate enigma.” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies , Fall, Vol. 29 No. 3, pp. 305-326; reprinted in, Capaldi, Nicolas, ed. 2005. Business and Religion: A Clash of Civilizations. M&M Scrivener Press; http://books.google.com/books?id=yifMkodJPmQC&pg=RA1-PA65&lpg=RA1-PA65&dq=%22the+jews+and+capitalism+a+love+hate+enigma%22+the+journal+of+social+political+and+economic+studies+fall+vol+29+no+3+pp+%22305+326%22&source=web&ots=kynmbW94C3&sig=f12kNS18U2nBXept-fe#PPA2,M1; http://141.164.133.3/exchange/walterblock/Inbox/More%20block%20Articles%20e-mail%20%233.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_The%20Jews%20and%20Capitalism-%20A%20Love-Hate%20enigma-%20Journal%20of%20Social,%20Political,%20and%20economic%20studies-%20Fall%20vol.%201,%20No.%203,%20pp.%20305-326.pdf/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/The%20Jews%20and%20Capitalism-%20A%20Love-Hate%20enigma-%20Journal%20of%20Social,%20Political,%20and%20economic%20studies-%20Fall%20vol.%201,%20No.%203,%20pp.%20305-326.pdf?attach=1
• Block, Walter. 2004. “The ‘digital divide' is not a problem in need of rectifying,” Journal of Business Ethics , Vol. 53, No. 4, September, pp. 393-406;
• Walker, Deborah, Jerry W. Dauterive, Elyssa Schultz and Walter Block. 2004. "The Feminist Competition/Cooperation Dichotomy: A Critique," Journal of Business Ethics , Vol. 55, No. 3, December, pp. 241-252;
• Block, Walter. 2004. “Reply to ‘Against Libertarian Legalism' by Frank van Dun,” Journal of Libertarian Studies . Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring, pp. 1-30; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/18_2/18_2_1.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2004. “Reply to Frank van Dun's ‘Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom,'” Journal of Libertarian Studies . Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring, pp. 65-72; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/18_2/18_2_4.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2004. “Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government, Part I” Reason Papers , Vol. 27, Fall, pp. 117-133; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block_radical-libertarianism-rp.pdf
• Whitehead, Roy, Catherine Gould and Walter Block. 2004. “The value of private water rights: from a legal and economic perspective,” Albany Law Environmental Outlook Journal . Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 315-343; http://tinyurl.com/36p9he ; http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/The%20value%20of%20Private%20Water%20Rights.doc
• Block, Walter. 2004. “Open Letter to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).” Procesos de Mercado: Revista Europea de Economia Politica (Market Processes: European Journal of Political Economy). Vol. 1, No. 1, Primavera, pp. 251-258.
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block. 2004. “Pleasing the Interested Investor: The Rational Basis for the Compensation of Corporate Executive Officers,” Managerial Finance , Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 93-111
• Barnett, William and Walter Block . 2004. “On the Optimum Quantity of Money,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 39-52; http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/OPTIMUM%20QUANTITY%20OF%20MONEY.doc
• Block, Walter. 2004. “ Libertarianism, Positive Obligations and Property Abandonment: Children's Rights,” Internation al Journal of Social Economics ; Vol. 31, No. 3, pp 275-286; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=18709 ; http://www.walterblock.com/publications.php#recent-arts ; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block-children.pdf
• Goolsby, Jerry R. and Walter Block. 2003-2004. “Education and Bureaucracy: National Testing and School Privatization,” Texas Education Review; http://www.educationreview.homestead.com/2003GoolsbyBlock.html ; http://141.164.133.3/.../National%20Testing%20and%20School%20Privatization.doc

2003

• Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block . 2003. “Taking the assets of the criminal to compensate victims of violence: a legal and philosophical approach,” Wayne State University Law School Journal of Law in Society Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall, pp.229-254; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block_taking-assets.pdf (death penalty justified)
• Block, Walter and Gene Callahan. 2003. "Is There A Right to Immigration? A Libertarian Perspective," Human Rights Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, October-December 2003, pp. 46-71; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block-callahan_right-immigrate-2003.pdf
•  Block, Walter. 2003. “Overcoming Difficulties in Road Privatization,” Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics ; http://www.units.it/etica/2003_2/block.htm
•  Block, Walter, Katherine Wingfield and Roy Whitehead. 2003. “Re-Evaluating America's Failing Drug Control Laws: A Legal, Philosophical, and Economic Proposal,” Oklahoma City Law Review , Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring, pp. 119-159; http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/Drug%20control%20Laws.doc
•  Block, Walter. 2003. "Private property rights, economic freedom, and Professor Coase: A Critique of Friedman, McCloskey, Medema and Zorn," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy , Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer, pp. 923-951
•  Block, Walter. 2003. “Prices and Location: A Geographical and Economic Analysis,” Planning and Markets , Volume 6, Issue 1, September; http://www-pam.usc.edu/
• Block, Walter. 2003. “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Inalienability: A Critique of Rothbard, Barnett, Gordon, Smith, Kinsella and Epstein,” Journal of Libertarian Studies , Vol.17, No. 2, Spring, pp. 39-85; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/17_2/17_2_3.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2003. “Decentralization, Subsidiarity, Rodney King and State Deification,” European Journal of Law and Economics , Vol. 16, No. 2, November, pp. 139-147; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/rodney_king.pdf
•  Dreuil, Emile, James Anderson, Walter Block and Michael Saliba. 2003. “The Trade Gap: The Fallacy of Anti World-Trade Sentiment,” Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 45, No. 3, July, pp. 269-281; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/trade_gap.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2003. “Realism: Austrian vs. Neoclassical Economics, Reply to Caplan,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall, pp. 63-76; http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae6_3_4.pdf ;
• Block, Walter. 2003. “ Libertarianism vs. Objectivism; A Response to Peter Schwartz,” Reason Papers , Vol. 26, Summer, pp. 39-62; http://www.reasonpapers.com/pdf/26/rp_26_4.pdf (death penalty justified)
• Block, Walter and Robert Murphy. 2003. “The Economics of the Very Long Run,” Homo Oeconomicus , Vol. XIX, No. 4, pp. 507-517; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/very_long_run.pdf
• Block, Walter. 2003. “Coordination Economies, Advertising and Search Behavior in Retail Markets by Bagwell and Ramey: A Comment,” Cross Cultural Management , Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 80-86; Block, Walter. 2003. “Coordination Economies, Advertising and Search Behavior in Retail Markets by Kyle Bagwell and Garey Ramey: A Comment,” International Journal of Value-Based Management , Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 67-73. (Due to an error on the part of the editor, evidentiary letter to be supplied to this effect on request by Walter Block, this one paper was mistakenly published in two different journals.)
• Block, Walter. 2002-2003. “ Berman on Blackmail: Taking Motives Fervently,” Florida State University Business Review , Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 57-114; http://www.law.fsu.edu/current_students/organizations/businessreview/vol3/block.pdf

2002

• Block, Walter E. . 2002. "Ona’ah," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 29, No. 9, pp. 722-29
• Miller, James T., and Walter E. Block. 2002. "Broken Windows: A Perspective on the Japanese Economy," Asian Economic Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 20-25
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter E. Block. 2002. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Property Rights Perspective," University of Utah Journal of Law and Family Studies, Vol. 4, pp.226-263.
• Block, Walter E. . 2002. "A critique of the legal and philosophical case for rent control," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 40, pp. 75-90
• Block, Walter E. , William Barnett II and Stuart Wood. 2002. "Austrian Economics, Neoclassical Economics, Marketing and Finance," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Summer, Vol. V, No. 2, pp. 51-66
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter E. Block. 2002. "Environmental Takings of Private Water Rights: the Case for Full Water Privatization," Environmental Law Reporter, October, pp. 11162-1117
• Clay, Megan and Walter E. Block. 2002. "A Free Market for Human Organs," The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer, pp. 227-236
• Dirmeyer, Jenny, Fred Tulley and Walter E. Block. 2002. "Should Airlines be Subsidized in an Emergency? The Libertarian View," The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 65-81
• Horton, Marshall and Walter E. Block. 2001-2002. "Was Marx an Adjunct? An Analysis of the Proposition That Part-time Faculty Are Economically Exploited," Texas Education Review, Vol. 1, No. IV, Winter, pp. 43-46.
• Evans, Jason and Walter E. Block. 2002. "Labor Union Policies: Gains or Pains?" Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 71-79

2001

• Block, Walter E. , "The Logic of the Argument in Behalf of Legalizing Blackmail," Bracton Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2001, pp. 56-80
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter E. Block, "Should the Government be Allowed to Engage in Racial, Sexual or Other Acts of Discrimination?," Northern Illinois University Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 2001, pp. 53-84
• Block, Walter E. , "Cyberslacking, Business Ethics and Managerial Economics," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2001, pp. 225-231.
• Block, Walter E. , "The Minimum Wage: A Reply to Card and Krueger," Journal of The Tennessee Economics Association, Spring 2001, electronic journal, url: http://www.mtsu.edu/~ceconed/100minwg.pdf.
• http://www.mtsu.edu/~ceconed/journal00.htm,
• http://www.mtsu.edu/~ceconed/journal00.htm,
• Block, Walter E. and Gary Anderson, "Blackmail, Extortion and Exchange," New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 3-4, 2001, pp. 541-561.
• Block, Walter E. , "Toward a Libertarian Theory of Blackmail," Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 55-88.
• Block, Walter E. . 2001. "Alienability, Inalienability, Paternalism and the Law: Reply to Kronman," American Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 28, No. 3, Summer, pp. 351-371.
• Block, Walter E. , "Yes, We Have No Chaff: A Reply to Wagner’s "Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Saving the Wheat While Discarding the Chaff," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 63-73.
• DiLorenzo, Tom and Walter E. Block, "Constitutional Economics and the Calculus of Consent," The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 37-56
• Block, Walter E. and Tom DiLorenzo, "The Calculus of Consent Revisited," Public Finance and Management, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2001; electronic journal, url: www.spaef.com <http://www.spaef.com>; http://spaef.com/PFM_PUB/pubv1n3.html
• Block, Walter E. , "Comment on Canice Prendergast’s ‘A Theory of ‘Yesmen,’" Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2, summer 2001, pp. 61-68.
• Block, Walter E. , "Transfers in Kind: Why They Can be Efficient and Nonpaternalistic – Comment," International Journal of Value-Based Management, 2001, pp. 191-199.
• Block, Walter E. , "The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements and Theft," The Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2001, pp. 83-93.
• Anderson, William, Walter E. Block, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ilana Mercer, Leon Snyman and Christopher Westley, "The Microsoft Corporation in Collision with Antitrust Law," The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 287-302.

2000

• Block, Walter E. , "Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the U.S. South: Implications for the Growth of the Welfare State," Unisinos: Perspectiva Economica Vol. 35, No. 112, December 2000, pp. 81-93; http://www.perspectivaeconomica.unisinos.br/112-05.pd
• Block, Walter E. "Is Inequality Harmful for Growth," Humanomics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2000, pp. 52-58
• Block, Walter E. , "Blackmail is Private Justice," University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2000, pp. 11-37
• Block, Walter E. , "Reply to Wexler: Libertarianism, Blackmail and Decency," University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2000, pp. 49-53
• McCormick, Paul and Walter E. Block, "The Minimum Wage: Does it Really Help Workers," Southern Connecticut State University Business Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall-Spring 2000, pp. 77-80.
• Block, Walter E. and Tom DiLorenzo, "Is Voluntary Government Possible? A Critique of Constitutional Economics," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 156, No. 4, December 2000
• Block, Walter E. and Matthew Block, "Toward a Universal Libertarian Theory of Gun (Weapon) Control," Ethics, Place and Environment, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2000, pp. 289-298
• Block, Walter E. , Roy Whitehead, Clint Johnson, Mana Davidson, Alan White and Stacy Chandler, "Human Organ Transplantation: Economic and Legal Issues," Quinnipiac College School of Law Health Journal, Vol. 3, 1999-2000, pp. 87-110
• Block, Walter E. , Austrian Journals: " Critique of Rosen, Yeager, Laband and Tollison, and Vedder and Gallaway," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 45-61
• Block, Walter E. , "Threats, Blackmail, Extortion and Robbery and Other Bad Things," University of Tulsa Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, Winter 2000, pp. 333-351
• Block, Walter E. , Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "The Second Paradox of Blackmail," Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 10, No.3, July 2000, pp. 593-622
• Cussen, Meaghan and Walter E. Block, "Drug Legalization: A Public Policy Analysis," (with Cussen, Meaghan), American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 59, No 3,
• Block, Walter E. , "Efficiency, Individualism, Praxeology and Law: Reply to Lawson," The Asian Economic Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, April 2000, pp. 172-182
• Block, Walter E. , "Private Property Rights, Erroneous Interpretations, Morality and Economics: Reply to Demsetz," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 63-78
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter E. Block, "Environmental Justice Risks in the Petroleum Industry," William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 67-88
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter E. Block, "Direct Payment of State Scholarship Funds to Church-Related Colleges Offends the Constitution and Title VI," (with Roy Whitehead), Brigham Young University of Journal of Public Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000, pp. 191-207
• Block, Walter E. , "The Legalization of Blackmail: A Reply to Professor Gordon," Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2000, pp. 1182-1223
• Block, Walter E. and Guillermo Yeatts, "The Economics and Ethics of Land Reform: A Critique of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace's 'Toward a Better Distribution of Land: The Challenge of Agrarian Reform,'" Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1999-2000, pp. 37-69

1999

• Block, Walter E. , Robert W. McGee and Kristin Spissinger, "No Policy is Good Policy: A Radical Proposal for U.S. Industrial Policy," Glendale Law Review, Vol. 17, No.1, 1999, pp 47-58
• Block, Walter E. , "Austrian Theorizing: Recalling the Foundations," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 21-39
• Block, Walter E. , "Optimal Export Policy for a New Product Monopoly," Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999, pp. 29-32
• Block, Walter E. , "Blackmailing for Mutual Good: A Reply to Russell Hardin," Vermont Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Fall 1999, pp. 121-141
• Block, Walter E. , William Kordsmeier and Joseph Horton, "The Failure of Public Finance," with William Kordsmeier and Joseph Horton, Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Winter 1999, pp. 42-69
• Block, Walter E. , "The Crime of Blackmail: A Libertarian Critique," Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1999, pp. 3-10
• Block, Walter E. , "Replies to Levin and Kipnis on Blackmail," Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1999, pp. 23-28
• Block, Walter E. , "Some Random Thoughts on Teaching University Economics," College Student Journal: A Journal Pertaining to College Students, Vol. 33, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 531-533
• Block, Walter E. , "Market Inalienability Once Again: Reply to Radin," Thomas Jefferson Law Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1999, pp. 37-88
• Block, Walter E. , "Blackmail and Economic Analysis," Thomas Jefferson Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, October 1999, pp. 165-192
• Block, Walter E. , "Controversy: Do Market Economies Allocate Resources Optimally? A Response to Murphey," The Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 279-289
• Block, Walter E. , "Controversy: Do Market Economies Allocate Resources Optimally? A Response to Murphey," The Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 297-306
• LaBletta, Nicole and Walter E. Block, "The Restoration of the American Dream: A Case for Abolishing Welfare," (with LaBletta, Nicole), Humanomics, Vol 15, No 4, 1999, pp. 55-65
• Coffey, Daniel and Walter E. Block, "Postponing Armageddon: Why Population Growth Isn't Out of Control," (with Coffey, Daniel), Humanomics. Vol. 15, No 4, 1999, pp. 66-79
• Block, Walter E. , "Naked Exclusion," Humanomics. Vol. 15, No 4, 1999, pp. 141-148
• Yoon, Yeomin, Robert W. McGee and Walter E. Block, "Antidumping and the People’s Republic of China: Five Case Studies," Asian Economic Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, August 1999, pp. 208-217
• Young, Andrew and Walter E. Block, "Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System," International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol.12, No. 3, 1999, pp. 195-207.
• Whitehead, Roy, Walter E. Block and Lu Hardin, "Gender Equity in Athletics: Should We Adopt a Non-Discriminatory Model?," The University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 1999, pp. 223-249
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter E. Block, "Mandatory Student Fees: Forcing Some to Pay for the Free Speech of Others," Whittier Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1999, pp. 759-781
• Block, Walter E. and Robert W. McGee, "Blackmail as a Victimless Crime," Bracton Law Journal, Vol. 31, 1999, pp. 24-48
• Whitehead, Roy and Walter E. Block, "Mandatory Student Fees: Forcing Some to Pay for the Free Speech of Others," Whittier Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1999, pp. 759-781
• Block, Walter E. , "The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, Greenspan," Managerial Finance, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1999, pp. 15-33
• Block, Walter E. and Roy Whitehead, "The Unintended Consequences of Environmental Justice," Forensic Science International, Vol. 100, Nos. 1 and 2, March 1999, pp. 57-67
• Block, Walter E. , and Robert W. McGee, "Blackmail from A to Z," Mercer Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, Winter 1999, pp. 569-601

1998

• Block, Walter E. , "Taxes and the Structure of Production," Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Vol. XVII, Nos. 2-3, 1998, pp. 145-159
• Johnson, Clint, Walter E. Block and Thomas Oxner, "Notes on Health Care Financing and Free Markets,", Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 488-502.
• Block, Walter E. , "A Libertarian Theory of Blackmail: Reply to Leo Katz’s ‘Blackmail and Other Forms of Arm-Twisting,’" Irish Jurist, Vol. XXXIII, 1998, pp. 280-310
• Block, Walter E. , "Environmentalism and Freedom: The Case for Private Property Rights," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 17, No. 6, December 1998, pp. 1887-1899
• Block, Walter E. , Joseph Horton and Debbie Walker, "The Necessity of Free Trade,"Markets and Morality, Vol. 1, No. 2, October, 1998, pp. 192-200
• Block, Walter E. , Joseph Horton and Ethan Shorter, "Rent Control: An Economic Abomination," International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1998, pp. 253-263
• Block, Walter E. , "Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property: Reply to Gordon Tullock," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol. 8, No. 2/3, June-September 1998, pp. 315-326
• Block, Walter E. , "Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed, Parades, Cigarettes," Asian Economic Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, April 1998, pp. 15-29
• Block, Walter E. , "Compromising the Uncompromisable: Discrimination," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol 57, No. 2, April, 1998, pp. 223-237
• Block, Walter E. , "A Libertarian Theory of Immigration," Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 167-186
• Block, Walter E. , "Private Roads, Competition, Automobile Insurance and Price Controls," Competitiveness Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1998, pp. 55-64
• Hopee, Hans-Hermann, Guido Hulsmann and Walter E. Block, "Against Fiduciary Media," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-50; translated into
• Spanish and published as "Contra los medios fiduciaros," Libertas, No. 30, May 1999, pp. 23-73

1997

• Yoon, Yeoman, Robert McGee and Walter E. Block. 1988. "Do we need protectionism," Asian Economic Review, Vol. 39, pp. 237-
• Block, Walter E. , "Tobacco Advertising," International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 221-235, May 199
• Block, Walter E. , "Compromising the Uncompromisable: the Austrian Golden Mean," Cultural Dynamics, vol. 9, No. 2, July 1997, pp. 211-238
• McGee, Robert W., and Walter E. Block, "Ethical Aspects of Initiating Anti Dumping Actions," International Journal of Social Economics, 1997, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 599-608
• Block, Walter E. , "Comment on Harberger's Richard T. Ely Lecture 'The Search for Relevance in Economics' and 'Secrets of Success: A Handful of Heroes,'" Entrepreneurship,
• Innovation and Change, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1997, pp. 57-66
• Block, Walter E. , and Robert W. McGee, "Must Protectionism Violate Rights?," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1997, pp. 393-407
• Block, Walter E. , "The Case for De-Criminalizing Blackmail: A Reply to Lindgren and Campbell," Western State University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 225-246

1996

• Lawson, Robert and Walter E. Block, "Government Decentralization and Economic Freedom," The Asian Economic Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, December 1996, pp. 421-434
• Block, Walter E. , "Hayek's Road to Serfdom," Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 1996, pp. 327-350
• Block, Walter E. , "Labor Market Disputes: A Comment on Albert Rees' 'Fairness in Wage Distribution,'" Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 1996, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 217-230
• Block, Walter E. , and Matthew Block, "Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property Rights," Journal Des Economistes Et Des Etudes Humaines, Vol. VII, No. 2/3,June-September 1996, pp. 351-362
• Block, Walter E. , "O.J.'s Defense: A Reductio Ad Absurdum of the Economics of Ronald Coase and Richard Posner," European Journal of Law and Economics, 1996, Vol. 3, pp. 265-286
• Block, Walter E. , "Drug Prohibition, Individual Virtue and Positive Economics," Review of Political Economy, October, 1996, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 433-436
• Block, Walter E. , "The Mishnah and Jewish Dirigisme," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1996, pp. 35-44
• Block, Walter E. , and Kenneth Garshchina, "Hayek, Business Cycles and Fractional Reserve Banking: Continuing the De-Homogenization Process," Review of Austrian Economics, Vol.. 9, No. 1, 1996, pp. 77-94
• Block, Walter E. , "Comment on Richard B. Freeman's 'Labor markets and institutions in economic development,'" International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1996, pp. 6-16
• Block, Walter E. , "Road Socialism," International Journal of Value-Based Management, 1996, Vol. 9, pp. 195-207

1995

• Block, Walter E. , "L'economie politique selon les Libertariens," (english translation: "A Libertarian Perspective on Political Economy") Journal Des Economistes Et Des Etudes Humaines, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995, pp. 121-151
• Block, Walter E. , "Reply to Hill and Rushton on Public Finance," Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 485-486
• Anderson, Gary M. And Walter E. Block, "Procrastination and Obedience: A Reply to Akerlof," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 54, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 201-215; abstracted in Sage Public Administration Abstracts, Vol. 22, No. 3, October 1995, p. 411
• Block, Walter E. , "Professor Modigliani on price controls: the baleful influence of the perfectly competitive model," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1995, pp. 27-30
• Block, Walter E. , "Ethics, Efficiency, Coasian Property Rights and Psychic Income: A Reply to Demsetz," Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1995, pp. 61-125

1994

• McGee, Robert W. and Walter E. Block, "Pollution Trading Permits as a Form of Market Socialism, and the Search for a Real Market Solution to Environmental Pollution," Fordham University Law and Environmental Journal, Vol. VI, No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 51-77
• Block, Walter E. , "Rent Control: A Case Study of British Columbia," Mid Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 30, No. 3, December 1994, pp. 299-304
• Block, Walter E. , "Total Repeal of Anti-trust Legislation: A Critique of Bork, Brozen and Posner," Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1994, pp. 31-64.
• Block, Walter E. , "Libertarianism vs. Libertinism," The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1994, pp. 117-128

1993

• Block, Walter E. , "Canadian Public Finance Texts Cannot Justify Government Taxation: A Critique of Auld & Miller; Musgrave, Musgrave & Bird; McCready; and Wolf," Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 225-262; translation into Spanish, Libertas, October, 1996, No. 25, pp. 35-86; anthologized as "The Justification for Taxation in the Economics Literature," in The Ethics of Tax Evasion, Robert W. McGee, ed., S. Orange, N.J.:Dumont Institute, 1998, pp. 36-88
• Block, Walter E. , "Worker's compensation and unemployment insurance in the U.S. and Canada: a comment on John Burton and Terry Thomason, Chris Bruce and Frank Atkins, Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce Meyer, David Green and Craig Riddell," The Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, Part 2, January 1993, pp. S305-S326.
• Anderson, Gary M. and Walter E. Block, "Guaranteed Annual Unemployment: a comment on Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson," The Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, Part 2, January 1993, pp. S348-S363.
• Block, Walter E. , "Drug Prohibition: A Legal and Economic Analysis," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 12, 1993, pp. 107-118.

1992

• Block, Walter E. , "Comment on McCready, and Maloney on Wealth Taxation", Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 35, No. 4, Winter 1992, pp. 542-548.
• Block, Walter E. , "Socialist Psychology: Values and Motivations," Cultural Dynamics, Vol. V, No. 3, 1992, pp. 260-286.
• Block, Walter E. , "Discrimination: An Interdisciplinary Analysis," The Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 11, 1992, pp. 241-254.

1991

• Block, Walter E. , "Labor Relations, Unions and Collective Bargaining: A Political Economic Analysis," Journal of Social Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 477-507
• McGee, Robert W. and Walter E. Block, "Academic Tenure: A Law and Economics Analysis," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 545-563.

1990

• Block, Walter E. , "Resource Misallocation, Externalities and Environmentalism in the U.S. and Canada," Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference, 1990, pp. 91-94
• Block, Walter E. , "Earning Happiness Through Homesteading Unowned Land: a comment on 'Buying Misery with Federal Land' by Richard Stroup," Journal of Social Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 1990, pp. 237-253
• Block, Walter E. , "La Costituzione in una Prospettiva Liberale Classica," Biblioteca Della Liberta, Vol. XXV, No. 109, 1990, pp. 93-10
• Block, Walter E. , "Jewish Economics in the Light of Maimonides," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1990, pp. 60-68
• Block, Walter E. , "The Discounted Marginal Value Product - Marginal Value Product Controversy: A Note," Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. IV, 1990, pp. 199-207.

Books and Monographs, Authored

• Block, Walter. Forthcoming. Defending the Undefendable II
• Block, Walter. 2007. The Political Economy of Labor. Toh Tuck Link, Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. (Pui, Cheong)
• Block, Walter. 2007. The Case for Discrimination . Auburn , AL : The Mises Institute (Scott Kjar)
• Block, Walter. 2007. Building Blocks for Liberty , Auburn , AL : The Mises Institute
• Block, Walter. Forthcoming, 2008. Privatize The Highways. Auburn , AL : The Mises Institute
• Block, Walter. 2006. The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors . Lewiston , N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, http://www.mises.org/Block, http://www.mises.org/Block/Block-roads.zip, http://www.mises.org/books/Block/index.html
• Gwartney, James, Robert Lawson and Walter Block . 1996. Economic Freedom of the World, 1975-1995 Vancouver, B.C. Canada : the Fraser Institute (308 pages); reviews; http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/pdf/catalogue.pdf ;
• Block, Walter and Michael A. Walker. 1988. Lexicon of Economic Thought , Vancouver : The Fraser Institute. (390 pages)
• Block, Walter. 1986. The U.S. Bishops and Their Critics: An Economic and Ethical Perspective, Vancouver : The Fraser Institute. (127 pages)
• Block, Walter and Michael A. Walker. 1985. Focus on Employment Equity: A Critique of the Abella Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, Vancouver : The Fraser Institute. (111 pages)
• Block, Walter. 1983. Focus on Economics and the Canadian Bishops , Vancouver : The Fraser Institute. (76 pages)
• Block, Walter. 1982. A Response to the Framework Document for Amending the Combines Investigation Act , Vancouver : The Fraser Institute. (60 pages)
• Block, Walter. 1991 [1976]. Defending the Undefendable , New York : Fleet Press, first printing 1976, second printing 1980, third printing 1985; New York : Fox and Wilkes, fourth printing, 1991; http://www.mises.org/store/Defending-the-Undefendable-P136C1.aspx chapter on "The Litterer" translated into Italian as "L'imbrattatore Di Luoghi Pubblici: Un Eroe", in Claustrofobia , March 1978, No. 33, pp. 19-24; chapter on "The Employer of Child Labor" reprinted in Libertarian Familist , Vol. 11, No. 8, October 1992, pp. 1-4; adopted by Steven Pinker and Alan Dershowitz at Harvard: http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/teaching/index.html ; MORALITY & TABOO - ADVANCED TOPICS, Psychology 2002; http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/teaching/Morality%20and%20Taboo%20syllabus.pdf
  • French translation, Defendre Les Indefendables , Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993;
  • Portuguese translation, Defendendo O Indefensavel , Porto Alegre, Brazil: Instituto de Estudos Empresariais, Ortiz, 1993;
  • Italian translation, Difendere l'indifendibile , Macerata: liberilibri, 1993;
  • Romanian translation, Pledoarii imposibile , Bucuresti: Societatea Economica, 1998; http://www.nemira.ro/traducator.asp?id=189
  • Chinese translation, Yao Enterprises, Taiwan , 2003.
  • Japanese translation, Japan Uni Agency, inc. Tokyodo Jinbocho, 2006
  • Spanish, pending, Juan Fernando Carpio (if falls thru, try jlarrain@sudmetal.cl [mailto:jlarrain@sudmetal.cl] Juan Paulo Larrain )
  • Korean, Jisang Publishing Co, EntersKorea, Seoul , Korea , 2007
  • Dutch, pending; Dirk-Jan van Enk [mailto:d.j.vanenk@hetnet.nl]

Book Reviews

• Review of Pipes, Richard, Property and Freedom: The story of how through the centuries private ownership has promoted liberty and the rule of law, New York: Knopf, 2000,p. 262, (1981),in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, forthcoming
• Fulda, Joseph S., Eight Steps Toward Libertarianism, Bellevue, WA: Free Economic Press, 1997, inThe Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 247-256
• "Review Essay of Bethell, Tom, The Nobles Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998," in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 65-84
• Hoppe, Hans Hermann, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy, Kluwer: Boston, 1993, in Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol. VII, No. 1, March 1996, pp. 161-165
• Simon, Julian, The State of Humanity, in The Freeman, Vol. 46, No. 10, October 1996, p. 712
• Ahlander, Ann-Mari Satre, Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy, Brookfield, VT, Edward Elgar, 1994, in The Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 43, No. 2, July 1995
• Disaster in Red: The Failure and Collapse of Socialism, Richard Ebeling, ed., New York: Irvington-on-Hudson, 1995, in Freeman, Vol 45, November 1995, pp. 738-739.
• Heckscher, Charles, White Collar Blues; in Business and the Contemporary World: Bentley College Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1995, pp. 185-186
• Juliet Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, New York: Basic Books, 1991, in Business and the Contemporary World, Vol. 5, No. 3, Summer 1993, pp. 192-194.
• Herschel Hardin, The New Bureaucracy: Waste and Folly in the Private Sector, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992, in Alberta Report, 22 June 1992, pp. 50-51.
• Michael Levin, Feminism and Freedom, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1987, in The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. X, No. 1, 1991, pp. 97-106.
• Michael Levin, Feminism and Freedom, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1987, in Nomos, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 25-26.
• Israel Kirzner, ed., Subjectivism, Intelligibility and Economic Understanding: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Lachmann, New York: New York University Press, 1986, in The Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. III, 1989, pp. 215-236.
• Peter Brimelow, The Patriot Game, Toronto: Key Porter, 1986, in Liberty, Vol 2, No. 2, November 1988, pp. 71-72.
• John Anderson and Morely Gunderson, Union-Management Relations in Canada, Don Mills, Ontario: Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1982; in The Journal of Labour Research, Vol. V, No. 1, Winter 1984, pp. 103-105.
• Peter Reuter, Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand, Cambridge: Mill Press, 1983; in Policy Report, Vol. V, No. 2, November 1983, pp. 10-11.
• Nancy C. Baker, Baby Selling: the Scandal of Black Market Adoptions, New York: The Vanguard Press, 1978; in Libertarian Review, January 1979, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. 44-45.
• Israel Kirzner, Competition and Entrepreneurship, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973; in Books for Libertarians, September 1973.
• Thomas Vietorisz and Bennett Harrison, The Economic Development of Harlem, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970; in Growth and Change, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 1971, p. 41.