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Walter Block

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Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University, senior fellow of the Mises Institute, and regular columnist for LewRockwell.com.

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Audio Mises Wire

In Defense of the Speculator

Booms and Busts

09/21/2021Mises Media
It will come as yesterday's news that the speculator is perennially under attack by the social justice warriors. Yet speculators serve a crucial and valuable role in surviving economic disasters.
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grain

In Defense of the Speculator

Booms and Busts

Blog09/18/2021

It will come as yesterday's news that the speculator is perennially under attack by the social justice warriors. Yet speculators serve a crucial and valuable role in surviving economic disasters. 

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justice gavel

It Is all the Wokesters' and Government's Fault

Politics
09/09/2021Power & Market

All major problems can be fairly laid at the door of the government, particularly on the woke philosophy that energizes all too much of its behavior.

They take half the GDP away from us. Most of these funds are spent in wasteful ways: paying people not to work; welfare, which breaks up...

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JLS

The Ethics of Public Spending

LibertarianismTaxes and SpendingPhilosophy and Methodology

05/28/2021The Journal of Libertarian Studies
Is it justifiable to accept money from government? Almost always, say Jonathan Gress and Walter Block--but not for everyone.
Formats
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The Human Action Podcast

Walter Block on The Ethics of Liberty

DemocracyOld RightU.S. HistoryOther Schools of Thought

05/21/2021Mises Media
Professor Walter Block joins the show to discuss the first section of The Ethics of Liberty , and gives us his unstinting take on Rothbard's vitally important treatment of natural law philosophy. There are also lots of great Blockean anecdotes you'll want to hear!
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