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    • A RESPONSE TO BROOKS' SUPPORT OF DEMSETZ ON THE COASE THEOREM 

      Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2010)
      Coase (1960) claimed that in the zero costs world, it would not matter for the allocation of resources which of two disputants were awarded the relevant property rights. Block (1977) disputed this, on the ground that it ...

    • ARE ALIENABILITY AND THE APRIORI OF ARGUMENT LOGICALLY INCOMPATIBLE? 

      Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2004)

    • CAPLAN ON PROBABILITY: A CRITIQUE 

      Wysocki, Igor; Block, Walter (Tsenov Publishing House, 2017)
      This paper addresses economic methodology, focusing particularly on Caplan’s (2003) probabilistic analysis and the problems therewith. The argument launched against Caplan is based on the fact that the said author either ...

    • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN WEST AFRICA: MAKING THE CASE FOR FREE ENTERPRISE 

      Block, Walter; Codjia, Sosthene (Tsenov Publishing House, 2017)
      Economic development in Africa and everywhere else for that matter, is furthered by capital accumulation. And this is fostered by economic freedom and private property rights which encourages the saving and investment which ...

    • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN WEST AFRICA: MAKING THE CASE FOR FREE ENTERPRISE 

      Block, Walter; Codjia, Sosthene (Tsenov Publishing House, 2017)
      Economic development in Africa and everywhere else for that matter, is furthered by capital accumulation. And this is fostered by economic freedom and private property rights which encourages the saving and investment which ...

    • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN WEST AFRICA: MAKING THE CASE FOR FREE ENTERPRISE 

      Block, Walter; Codjia, Sosthene (АИ "Ценов", 2017)
      Economic development in Africa and everywhere else for that matter, is furthered by capital accumulation. And this is fostered by economic freedom and private property rights which encourages the saving and investment which ...

    • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN WEST AFRICA: MAKING THE CASE FOR FREE ENTERPRISE 

      Block, Walter; Codjia, Sosthene (Tsenov Publishing House, 2017)
      Economic development in Africa and everywhere else for that matter, is furthered by capital accumulation. And this is fostered by economic freedom and private property rights which encourages the saving and investment which ...

    • FREE ENTERPRISE AND POVERTY: CAUSE OR CURE? 

      Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2007)
      Poverty in general is created by governmental mismanagement. The solution to the problem is the free enterprise system. Markets reduce poverty by promoting incentives and rational economic activity. Governments exacerbate ...

    • Indifference In Economics: Comment On Nozick, Hoppe And Wysocki 

      Block, Walter (Tsenov Publishing House, 2023)
      Nozick (1977) set a challenge for Austrian economics. On the one hand, this school of thought rejects the notion of indifference, and along with it, indifference curves. On the other hand, the praxeological school accepts ...

    • Indifference In Economics: Comment On Nozick, Hoppe And Wysocki 

      Block, Walter (Tsenov Publishing House, 2023)
      Nozick (1977) set a challenge for Austrian economics. On the one hand, this school of thought rejects the notion of indifference, and along with it, indifference curves. On the other hand, the praxeological school accepts ...

    • INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT 

      Barnett II, William; Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2008)
      Our claim is that in the purely free enterprise system, there can be no such thing as involuntary unemployment, as long as wage demands are in accord with expected productivity, as perceived by the potential employer. ...

    • MY CASE OF AND FOR COAUTHORING 

      Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2007)
      The benefits of co authoring vastly outweigh the costs in my own case. So much so that I have engaged in this form of publication on numerous occasions. The present paper (single authored) sets out the advantages and ...

    • REJOINDER TO WYSOCKI ON INDIFFERENCE AND THE BLOCK-HOPPE DEBATE 

      Block, Walter (Tsenov Publishing House, 2019)
      There has been an ongoing debate in Austrian economic circles on indifference and methodology. It started with Nozick (1977) who criticized this school of thought on that issue. Block (1980) responded to that essay. The ...

    • RESPONSE TO BEN O’NEILL ON INDIFFERENCE 

      Block, Walter; Wirth, Harold; Butt, Joseph (АИ "Ценов", 2012)
      O’Neill (2010) is a critique of Block (1980) and, also, I argue, a supporter of Nozick’s (1977) criticism of the Austrian School of economics. O’Neill (2010) also calls into question Hoppe (2005, 2009). These latter two ...

    • SCALE OF VALUES VIOLATES SINGULARISM 

      Barnett II, William; Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2009)
      There is at the very least a tension between two basic building blocs of Austrian economics. The doctrine of singularism maintains that choice is inevitably and necessarily between two and only two things: that which is ...

    • SECESSION 

      Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2007)
      Secession, political disassociation, can be justified on libertarian grounds, particularly on the basis of the law of free association. We make this case, and then consider objections to this thesis. We conclude with the ...

    • SPREADING THE BENEFITS OF PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES: PRICE INCREASES, DECREASES, OR BOTH? A CRITIQUE OF BAUMOL ON SUBSIDIES TO THE ARTS 

      Barnett II, William; Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2006)
      This paper attempts to grapple with the market mechanism through which growth in one sector of the economy spreads to other sectors. It calls into question Baumol’s argument for subsidies to the arts and by extension, to ...

    • THE ANTIMATHEMATICALITY OF DEMAND CURVES 

      Barnett II, William; Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2010)
      Mathematics has proven so helpful in the physical sciences such as physics that it has been improperly applied to economics. The dismal science studies purposeful human action, while purpose in the hard sciences is properly ...

    • THE ONE ARTICLE AT A TIME TO A ‘CUSTOMER’ RULE IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS 

      Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2010)
      Some journal editors of periodicals ostensibly libertarian oriented yet practice an editorial policy with would be in other contexts seen as anathema to this philosophy: to wit, affirmative action. The present paper documents ...

    • ОПАЗВАНЕ НА ЖИВОТИНСКИТЕ ВИДОВЕ 

      Дейвисън, Дуайт; Макерджи, Джей; Симпсън, Дейвид; Блок, Уолтър; Davison, Dwight; Mukherjee, Jay; Simpson, David; Block, Walter (АИ "Ценов", 2014)
      С настъпване на 40-годишнината от приемането на Закона за застрашените видове става необходимо да се направи исторически преглед на този акт и неговото въздействие върху постигането на целите по предотвратяване на изчезването ...