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Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees
in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other
traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes
articles from a number of individuals from a range of different
disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism
and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating
literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have
a larger claim upon people's literary consciousness. In addition,
they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the
complexities of a capitalist culture. This collection of essays
provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of
fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works
selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical,
political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives
that have been found over time in American society. The novels and
plays analyzed include high literature, mid-range literature,
popular literature, ancient epics, grand narratives, hero tales,
masterpieces, ideological texts, science fiction, and more. There
are a great many works of literature waiting to be read and studied
by business and economically-minded individuals from many different
viewpoints and fields of study. This volume provides a space to
explore a wide range of fictional works and opinions about them.
Walter Block has for decades been one of the most effective and
indefatigable defenders of libertarianism. One feature in his
writing stands out, from his classic Defending the Undefendable to
the present. He consistently applies the principles of
libertarianism to every situation in a bold and original way.
Readers of Toward a Libertarian Society, a collection of his
articles from lewrockwell.com, will find this feature abundantly on
display.
Block believes that libertarianism has three components: foreign
policy, economic policy, and policies on personal liberties. He
devotes a separate part of the book to each of these
components.
In foreign affairs, Block is a resolute non-interventionist. He
is an anarchist who rejects the state altogether; but, so long as a
state exists, it should confine its foreign policy to defense
against invasion. Doing so is in line with the tradition of
Washington and John Quincy Adams. In our own day, Ron Paul has been
the foremost champion of non-intervention; and Paul has few, if
any, more ardent advocates than Walter Block.
In economic policy, Block defends the free market against all
types of interference. One issue especially concerns him: the
activities of labor unions. Against union advocates, Block
emphasizes that wages depend on workers' marginal productivity.
Block is equally decisive in macroeconomics. He calls for the total
abolition of the Fed.
Block, never one to avoid controversy, argues that much in the
contemporary feminist movement is antithetical to libertarianism.
Readers will learn his views about abortion, stem-cell research,
and punishment theory. He is a firm advocate of the possibility and
desirability of political secession.
Reading Toward a Libertarian Society is the equivalent of a
college course in libertarianism, taught by a master teacher.
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com.
Walter Block has been writing on the economics of discrimination -
and in defense of discrimination, rightly understood - for more
than 30 years. This large hardcover collects nearly all of this
writing to present a radical alternative to the mainstream view.
His thesis is that discrimination -- choosing one thing over
another -- is an inevitable feature of the material world where
scarcity of goods and time is the pervasive feature. There is no
getting around it. You must discriminate, and therefore you must
have the freedom to discriminate, which only means the freedom to
choose. Without discrimination, there is no economizing taking
place. It is chaos. The market embeds institutions that assist
people in making the wisest possible choices given the
alternatives. In this sense, discrimination is rational and
socially optimal. For the state to presume to criminalize it based
on social and political priorities amounts to a subversion of the
market and of human liberty that leads to social conflict. The
empirical detail in this work is as rigorous as the argument is
radical. What politics regards as a dangerous inequality, Block
regards as perfectly rational given existing realities. In essence,
Block's book is a specialized application of the libertarian
perspective on society, as applied to a particular controversy in
our times. It is supremely rare in tackling this issue head on, and
offering a no-compromise alternative: abolish all
anti-discrimination law on grounds that it makes no economic sense
and only generates conflict where none need exist. Will this book
cause controversy? Most assuredly. But that it is not its goal. Its
goal is the uprooting of a flawed and failed social theory and its
replacement by a realistic one that is rooted in a genuine concern
for human rights and the good of all.
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com
Professor Block's book is in a new edition from the Mises
Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition
worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great
defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices,
from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail. However,
beneath the surface, this book is also an outstanding work of
microeconomic theory that explains the workings of economic forces
in everyday events and affairs. Murray Rothbard explains why:
"Defending the Undefendable performs the service of highlighting,
the fullest and starkest terms, the essential nature of the
productive services performed by all people in the free market. By
taking the most extreme examples and showing how the Smithian
principles work even in these cases, the book does far more to
demonstrate the workability and morality of the free market than a
dozen sober tomes on more respectable industries and activities. By
testing and proving the extreme cases, he all the more illustrates
and vindicates the theory." F.A. Hayek agreed, writing the author
as follows: "Looking through Defending the Undefendable made me
feel that I was once more exposed to the shock therapy by which,
more than fifty years ago, the late Ludwig von Mises converted me
to a consistent free market position. ... Some may find it too
strong a medicine, but it will still do them good even if they hate
it. A real understanding of economics demands that one disabuses
oneself of many dear prejudices and illusions. Popular fallacies in
economics frequently express themselves in unfounded prejudices
against other occupations, and showing the falsity of these
stereotypes you are doing a real services, although you will not
make yourself more popular with the majority."
Philosophers of Capitalism provides an interdisciplinary approach,
attempting to discover the feasibility of an integration of
Austrian Economics and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. In the
first section of the book, Edward W. Younkins supplies essays
presenting the essential ideas of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises,
and Ayn Rand. Building upon these essential ideas, the second
portion of the book brings together scholarly perspectives from top
academics, analyzing Menger, von Mises, and Rand. The third and
final section of the book looks toward the future and the
possibility of combining and extending the insights of these
champions of a free society, emphasizing how the errors, omissions,
and oversights made by one theorist can effectively be negated or
compensated for by integrating insights from one or more of the
others. Featuring a list of recommended reading for the major ideas
and theorists discussed, Philosophers of Capitalism is an essential
book for both philosophers and economists.
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