Defending the Undefendable

INDEX

abortion, 14

absolute advantage, 178

academic freedom, 51–55

addiction, drug, 28, 33–37

adulthood, 244–47

advertisers, 57–68, 215

advertising

ban on, 63–64

government-aided, 67

government ratings board for, 65

motivational and informational, 61–65

aggression, xiii, xv, xvi

airlines, 60

banking, 60

central, 106–08

holidays, 107

wildcat, 106–07

benefits, social, xiv

blackmailers, 41–46

blacks, 229–30

Block, Walter, ix–xi

boycotts, 43

bribery, 95

Britain, 31

brokerage, 10–11

brothers’ keeper philosophy, 133–35

business and trade issues, 139–95

capital accumulation, 111–12

cartels, 149, 214–16, 224

charity, 129–35

private vs. state, 131–32

child labor, 243–52

China, 30

civil liberties, 193–94

Cloward, Richard A., 132

collateral, 126

collectives, shopping, 161

comparative advantage, 178

compensating differentials, 17–18

competition, 21, 60, 162, 208, 214

condemnation, land, 141

conscription, 244

consumer sovereignty, 218–19

contracts, 44, 54, 69–71, 123

cooping, 93

cops, 91–96

corruption, 162

costs, 65

counterfeiters, 99–110

criminals, 14, 44–45

curmudgeons, 139–45

Darwin’s law, 130

debasement, 105

deflation, 114

demand, law of, 225

devaluations, 107

discrimination, 62

private vs. state, 15–16

sexual, 20–21, 22–23

doctors, medical, 29, 37

Domhoff, G. William, 130

double coincidence of wants, 182

draft, the, 244

drugs

addicts of, 33–37

pushers of, 27–31, 92–93

ecological issues, 199–220

economics, xii, 63

economists, ix

egalitarianism, 119–20

eminent domain, 140–41

employers, 223–32, 243–52

energy sources, 220

entrepreneurs, 185–95

equality, 20–21, 119

income, 133–34

evil, xiv

exchange rates, flexible and fixed, 108

exports, 172–73

extortion, 96

famine, 165–68

farm price supports, 132

fences, 29

fiat currency, 104

financial issues, 99–135

“fire,” screaming in a crowded theater, 69–72

foreign aid, 132

fraud, 59, 99

free speech, 41–72

free-enterprise, system of, xv–xvi, 16, 22, 193

Friedman, Milton, 66, 108

gambling, 92

ghetto merchants, 155–63, 230

gifts, 117–18, 177

gold, 104–05, 176

gossips, 42–43

government, 15, 17–18

intervention in the economy, 143, 152, 161–63

market vs., 15–16, 67, 71, 77, 131–32, 193, 195, 208

Gross National Product (GNP), 36

gypsy cab drivers, 75–82

handicapped, the, 230–31

harassment, sexual, 16, 18–20

heirs, 117–20

heroes, x–xi, 109

heroin, 27–30

hoarding, 112–15

homesteading, 140–41, 245–47, 251

housing, 147–54

importers, 169–78

inflation, monetary, 99–110

inheritors, 117–20

innovation, 240–41

interest, 124–26

invisible hand, 166

jobs, 169, 172–73, 233–34

hunting for, 61

kid liberation movement, 248

knowledge, 188, 195, 225

labor issues, 223–52

labor

lump of, fallacy, 238–39

labor

skilled, 174

organized, 231

landlords, 147–54

law, 94–95

legal tender laws, 105

leisure, 30

lenders, 121–27

libeler, 47–50

libertarianism, xiii–xiv, xvi

licensure, 77–79

lifespan, 34–35

litterers, 205–11

majority opinion, 33

male chauvinist pigs, 13–23

marketplace, xv

marriage, 6

means, ends and, xvi

medical issues, 27–37

medical profession, 29, 37, 216

mental incompetents, 247

merchants, 155–63

middlemen, 179–83

migrant workers, 227

Mill, John Stuart, 33

minimum wage laws, 223–24, 227–32

mining, 199–203

minorities, 75–77, 79–80

minting, 104–05

misers, 111–15

mixed economy, 195

money, 99–110; as sterile, 123–24

moneylenders, 121–27

morality, xvi, 133, 140

murder, 251

natural selection, 130

nature, argument from, 202–03

obligations, positive, 249–50

obsolescence, planned, 213–20

opportunities, 186–89

outlaws, 75–96

Packard, Vance, 213

paper

money, 106

products, 217–19

parenting, 59, 249–51

physiocrats, 59

pimps, 9–11

Piven, Frances F., 132

policemen, 91–96

pollution, 200–202

poor, the, 75–77; 79–80, 124–27

poverty, 151

praxeology, 144

prices, 6, 28, 30, 75, 84, 86, 102, 112–14, 149, 156, 186–89, 209, 219

productivity, 227–30, 240–41, 249

professions, 4, 9

profiteer, 185–95

profits, 156–59, 185–95

prohibitions, 123, 154

drug, 27–30

property, 15

private, 140

private vs. public, 17–20, 22, 54, 205–10

prostitutes, 3–7, 14

protectionism, 170–78

public speaking, 63

public transit, 76–77

racism, 236

radical leftists, 62–63

railroads, 216

rape, 13–14, 94

rate buster, 237–41

ratings agencies, 215

rationing, 86

regulatory agencies, capture of, 66

rent control laws, 149

rents, 149

reputation, 47–50

responsibility, 35

rights, 23, 71

Rockwell, Norman, 3

Rothbard, Murray N., 114n, 245

ruling class, 54

sado-masochists, 71–72

savings, 111–12

scabs, 233–36

scapegoats, ix–x

self-ownership, 140

sex, 5–6

sexual issues, 3–23

short selling, 187

sidewalks, 210

silver, 104

slanderer, 47–50

slumlords, 147–54

Smith, Adam, 166

specialization, 171–72

speculators, 165–68

stewardship, 142–43

strikes, 236

stripminers, 199–203

taxation, xiv

taxi drivers, 75–82

theft, 103, 123

third parties, xv, 5

threats, 43–44

ticket scalpers, 83–89

time preference, 121–22

tires, 217

token coins, 105

torture, 96

trade, xv, 3, 6, 107, 144–45, 169–78

trespass, 200–02

unemployment, 223–24, 228–30

unions, 231–32

usury, 126

utopia, 177

violence, xiii, xv, xvi

voluntarism, 247, 252

Vonnegut, Kurt, 119

voting, 245

wages, 224–32

wastemakers, 213–20

women’s liberation movement, 13