This is Professor Block’s second appearance on the “Our Story” television program, hosted by W. C. Johnson. Originally aired on NOA-TV, Channel 77 in New Orleans, Lousiana; February 28, 2006
The Free Market 25, no. 1 (January 2007) When I was about 18 years old I purchased my first bit of real estate. It was a four-family apartment house in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, right near the ocean. I thought that one day it would become quite valuable. It was rent controlled and the rents were extremely low, so I
I agree entirely with Ralph . The only “trouble” with Guido’s book is that, as long as it is, it should have been twice as long. I very greatly regretted finishing reading it. I wanted more. Happily, Guido is a very young man, and we can expect more great things from him in
What could these two thinkers, considered to be opposites, have in common? It turns out that Karl Marx inherits from Adam Smith a very basic error, one which has monumental consequences and has changed the world forever. Adam Smith tells us in his famous treatise on the wealth of nations that in primitive conditions or small towns, those who would
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