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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

Who reads Block Defending The Undefendable?

Author

Walter Block

Publisher

Ludwig von Mises Institute

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781933550176

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Biography

Rating

3.96 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14