Is the state’s power of eminent domain necessary in a free society? Walter Block and Richard Epstein debate the topic. Recorded at the University of Chicago Law School on 10 May
Articles related to privatized roads etc. recently posted on WalterBlock.com : “Road Socialism,” International Journal of Value-Based Management , 9 (1996): 195-207 “Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed Limits, Parades, Cigarettes,” Asian Economic Review , Vol. 40, No. 1 (April 1998): pp. 15-29 “Theories of Highway Safety,” Transportation
Concerning Mises and the opera , I once said, perhaps even at a formal Mises event, as a joke, that I oppose all government intervention, except that the govt should force everyone to read Man, Economy and State . I was trying to show what a moderate I was. I’ll bet that if it turns out that Mises said what is claimed he said about opera, it was
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.