A Note on Walter Block's Defending the Undefendable: the case of the "Heroic" counterfeiter.(Book review)
From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
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Date: 4/1/2006
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Author: Murphy, Robert P.
Walter Block's amusing and popular Defending the Undefendable offers an intentionally shocking collection of short chapters, each praising a different "rogue" of modern society--including the pimp, slumlord, and corrupt cop--from a libertarian viewpoint. However, Block's defense of the "heroic" counterfeiter is based on faulty economic analysis and is hence completely unwarranted.
Walter Block's Defending the Undefendable ([1976] 1991) is a delightful book that forces the reader to ...
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