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Kenneth Rogoff, with his book, The Curse of Cash, is one of the most outspoken critics of cash. He wants to immediately prohibit use of large bills ($100, $50) and eventually even smaller ones ($20, $10). Graciously, he will leave us with the smallest ones ($1, $5). For very different reasons than he puts forth, I agree with his contention. I, too, oppose the use of U.S. fiat currency. Had Ron Paul become president of our country, and had he appointed me to be in charge of this sort of thing, I would have implements the Rogoff plan, only I would have been more through: not only $1 and $5 bills would have to go, but the same would apply to quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. (I now renounce this essay of mine: Block, Walter E. 8/26/01. “Keep the penny; ditch the Fed,” New Orleans Times Picayune, p. B-7; reprinted in http://archive.lewrockwell.com/block/block7.html, 8/29/01; “Freedom News Daily” [email protected], 8/30/01; http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2016/04/the-penny-and-fed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economicpolicyjournal%2FKpwH+%28EconomicPolicyJournal.com%29).

How can I justify making common cause with Prof. Rogoff, an interventionist if ever there was one (bless his heart, as we say in the South; not to bring in an irrelevancy, but they can take away our statue of Robert E. Lee, however, not that saying, at least not yet)? I do so because I oppose U.S. fiat currency, just as he does, which is what we are now talking about, which it what this Harvard professor is advocating doing away with (partially on his part, completely on mine). Where I part company from the good (money) socialist professor lies in what we would substitute for present money. He would go to electronic money, not bitcoin, of course. I, in sharp contrast, favor the gold standard. Let us, then, by all means, get rid of all government connection with money, from the penny to the largest denomination, and substitute for it gold as money!

2:31 pm on July 8, 2017 Email Walter E. Block

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Is An Cap Vulnerable to Warlords, Crony Capitalists, Or Corporativists?

From: B
Sent: Wed 7/5/2017 11:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Learning Praxeology, Austrian Economics

Greetings Mr. Block, My name is B, a 26-years-old from Morocco. After failing couple of small businesses I realized how complex the world is, stopped everything, went back to my room and tried to learn how choices, people, economics, works, I felt lost and nothing made sens to me till I’ve discovered the Austrian School of economics. Learning and reading about economics the Austrian way changed m life forever, it changed the way I deal with people, the way I live, the way I see things, the way I explain the world. I felt an extraordinary enlightenment, and knew that I will never be the same again. Getting deep into Human Action and Praxeology led me to my first conversion, from Socialism to Libertarianism, and then, I had my second conversion from Libertarianism to Anarcho-Capitalism, and it feels just AMAZING. Now I wanna learn more about Austrian Economics “the radical way” and I consider you maybe the best Economist alive, I feel that Austrian Economics could not just explain things better, further more, it could really change completely the way we master economics, and to be honest, I have no interest at all in main stream economics, I feel that main stream economics is just bullshit, even if I have a technological training and I was trained to become a “positivist”, and I have a deep belief that Austrian Economics and especially Praxeology could be the science of the future, Artificial Intelligence is eating the economy and only a clear precise understanding of the Humain Action could be help entrepreneurs, economists and philosophers. I’m emailing you to ask you if there is any way to learn from you, by joining your university or attempting any program you’re animating, I really wanna learn from you personally. Thank you for your amazing talks, and thank you for reading my email. B

Dear B:

Thanks for your kind words. What academic degrees do you already have? High school graduation? College degree?

Best regards,

Walter

—–Original Message—–
From: B
Sent: Wed 7/5/2017 11:30 AM
To: Walter Block
Subject: Re: Learning Praxeology, Austrian Economics

1000 Thanks Mr. Block for answering my email.

I have something like an Associate’s degree in general engineering, I don’t know exactly how the academic system works in the U.S. but it’s technically 2 successful years after High School, we follow the French academic system here in Morocco.

But trust me Mr. Block I’ve watched thousands of hours of Mises Institute’s video and read almost all the popular works of Rothbard, Mises, some of yours because I couldn’t buy them all, read almost all of the free e-books out there about Austrian Economics from Menger’s to Hoppe’s and Murphy’s, and I have no problem starting from the beginning.

Thank you again Mr. Block, I still can’t believe you answered me. B

Dear B:

Enroll at Loyola U and take courses with me and my free enterprise colleagues:

Block, Walter E. 2017. “C’mon Down To New Orleans; The Water’s Fine. Enroll at Loyola University.” June 27;

C’mon Down To New Orleans; The Water’s Fine. Enroll at Loyola University

If you’ve passed deadlines for admission, I’ll try to help you overcome them.

Best regards,

Walter

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If it moves, privatize it; if it doesn’t move, privatize it. Since everything either moves or doesn’t move, privatize everything.

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” Murray, N. Rothbard

“Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.” Ludwig von Mises

Top Ten Contemporary Academics Helping The Political Right (#8)
http://www.poletical.com/academics-helping-the-right.php <http://www.poletical.com/academics-helping-the-right.php

100 Most Influential Libertarians: A Newsmax/FreedomFest List (#46)
http://www.newsmax.com/BestLists/libertarians-newsmax-freedomfest/2017/06/01/id/793510/ <http://www.newsmax.com/BestLists/libertarians-newsmax-freedomfest/2017/06/01/id/793510/

1:08 pm on July 5, 2017 Email Walter E. Block

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I’ve Just Become A Neo-Conservative; Well, At Least Partially

Our president, the only president of the U.S. at present, my president, your president, everyone’s president (at least in our country) has been under fire from the usual suspects for excessive tweeting. In their view, it is unbecoming of a president of the U.S. to tweet at all, let alone so much. And, also, he hits below the belt: when you get into a mud fight, even if you “win,” you still get dirty. This is the feedback from his so called friends. What is forthcoming from his enemies usually features the four letter “F” word, and it is not “fair” or “free.”

His real supporters have entirely a different view. It is that he is a “fighter” and when he gets hit, he strikes back. And, he usually gives “better” than he receives. This reminds me of comedian Chevy Chase’s continual portrayal of President Gerald Ford as an inept (physical) blunderer, always tripping over his own feet. And yet this target played football at a Big Ten University, and you don’t get to do anything of the sort if you are not a good athlete. I wonder what would have happened had Ford challenged Chase to a sort of decathlon: bowling, shooting free throws, running a quarter mile, swimming 100 yards, a tennis game, etc. I’ll bet Ford, who spotted Chase a decade or two, would have won, and put the latter in his place. Trump’s counter tweeting is seen by his real supporters in this vein.

What is the libertarian take on this matter?

It is pretty positive I claim. One element is that the exalted nature of that office might be taken down a peg or two. Nothing that reduces the prestige of that office can be all bad from the libertarian point of view. Another benefit can best be seen by extrapolation: suppose the Donald did nothing but tweet; would this be good for liberty or not? While Trump has done some good things, or at least bodes well to do so (regulation reduction, tax decreases, his Supreme Court nomination), most of what he has accomplished so far must be placed on the debit side of the ledger: protectionism, and especially bombing countries the U.S. has no business of even occupying in the first place. So, Mr. President, let those tweets rip. The more of them the better. And, while you’re at it, Donald, why not get your cabinet to tweet as well? If you all tweeted, oh, 8-10 hours per day, and left the rest of us strictly alone, that would go on the credit side of the ledger. (Similarly, when Obama went on vacation, or played basketball, liberty got a boost; and, thank God for golf, when Eisenhower was in the oval office).

2:47 pm on July 3, 2017 Email Walter E. Block

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There has been a lot of fuss, in libertarian and conservative circles, about Nancy MacLean’s new book Democracy in Chains. I have not yet read it, but, based on this plethora of reviews it has so far garnered, I discern that one of its main “insights” is that James Buchanan in particular, and his (and Gordon Tullock’s!) Public Choice School in general, are leaders of the libertarian movement; among its very founders. Nothing could be further from the truth, as this book amply demonstrates:

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. and Walter E. Block. 2016. An Austro-Libertarian Critique of Public Choice; Addleton Academic Publishers; www.addletonacademicpublishers.com; 30-18 50th Street, Woodside, New York, 11377; [email protected]; ISBN 978-1-942585-26-8, eISBN 978-1-942585-27-5

Instead, Tom and I criticize both Buchanan and Public Choice on Austrian and libertarian grounds. Virtually all the chapters were written by my co author and me. I don’t know if Tom agrees with me on this or not, but, I regard the single chapter in that book not written by either of us as the best one in it. It is this, which we reprinted in this book of ours:

Rothbard, Murray. 1997. “Buchanan and Tullock’s ‘The Calculus of Consent,” The Logic of Action II, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 269-274

I know this is shameless self-promotion, but, if you want a compelling antidote to the view that Buchanan was a leading libertarian, read this book.

As it happens, I am a fan of Democracy in Chains. I have to concede, she does spell the word “libertarian” correctly (at least based on the reviews of it I have seen). She doesn’t spell it “libertoonian,” nor confuse us with librarians nor libertines (none the reviews of it I have seen make this claim). In my view, there is no such thing as bad publicity. Any focus on our beloved philosophy is a good thing. So, thank you, Miss (sic) MacLean.

12:35 pm on June 30, 2017 Email Walter E. Block

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My Upcoming Speeches, Lectures, Debates

Health Economics Bibliography:

A few days ago, someone asked me for a reading list of material from an Austro-libertarian point of view, on health economics. I placed that on this blog:

Libertarian Views on Health Care

I asked for additions, and several people sent me more material. Thanks to them, I can now offer a greatly expanded bibliography.

Let me just say that this listing is highly relevant, given the attempts of the Republicans to repeal Obamacare. What would a truly free enterprise health care industry look like? This bibliography furnishes some answers to that question. See on this below.

A while ago I sent you an article of me attacking Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz for donating a kidney to an orphan while calling those who traffic organs on the black market “shameful”, and generally being against a free market in organs.
Amazingly, and to my complete and utter surprise, Yanklowitz has just reversed his position.
Here is my original piece attacking him: http://thejewishlibertarian.com/2015/06/22/on-organ-donation-organ-sales-and-hypocrisy/
Here is his original piece attacking organ trafficking: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-shame-of-orthodoxy-1.281148
Here is his new piece now supporting a (regulated) market in human organs.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/02/donated-kidneys-paying-black-market-organs

Here is my public apology, which I said I would pen if Yanklowitz ever reversed his position, which he has.

Shmuly Yanklowitz Supports Human Organ Sales!

http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/12/09/43990bba5cb68

Adams, A. F., A. H. Barnett, and D. L. Kaserman. 1999. Markets of Organs: “The Question of Supply.” Contemporary Economics Policy. 17 (April): 147-155; Anderson, W. L., and A. H. Barnett. 1999. “Waiting for Transplants.” The Free Market 17 (4): 1-2; Barnett, A. H., T. R. Beard, and D. L. Kaserman. 1993. “The Medical Community’s Opposition to Organ Markets: Ethics or Economics?” Review of Industrial Organization. 8: 669-678; Barnett, A. H., R. D. Blair, and D. L. Kaserman. 1992. “Improving Organ Donations: Compensation Versus Markets.” Inquiry. 29 (Fall): 372-378; Barnett, A. H., and D. L. Kaserman. 1995. “The ‘Rush to Transplant’ and Organ Shortages.” Economic Inquiry. 33 (July): 506-515; Barnett, W. II, 1988. “The Market in Used Human Body Parts.” The Free Market. 6 (11): 5; Barnett, W. II, M. Saliba, and D. Walker. 2001. “ A Free Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable.” The Independent Review. 5 (3): 373-385; Barney Jr., D., and L. Reynolds. 1989. “An Economic analysis of Transplant Organs.” Atlantic Economic Journal. 17 (September): 12-20; Blair, R. D., and D. L. Kaserman. 1991. “The Economics and Ethics of Alternative Cadaveric Organ Procurement Policies.” Yale Journal on Regulation. 8: 403-452; Block, Walter E. 1988. The Case for a Free Market in Body Parts. The Free Market 6 (3): 3; Block, Walter E., Roy Whitehead, Clint Johnson, Mana Davidson, Alan White and Stacy Chandler, “Human Organ Transplantation: Economic and Legal Issues,” Quinnipiac College School of Law Health Journal, Vol. 3, 1999-2000, pp. 87-110; Caplan, A. L. 1992. If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press; Carlstrom, C. T., and C. D. Rollow. 1997. “The Rationing of Transplantable Organs: A Troubled Lineup.” Cato Journal. 17 (Fall): 163-177; DeJong, W., J. Drachman,, S. L. Gortmaker, et al. 1995. “Options for Increasing Organ Donations: The Potential Role for Financial Incentives, Standardized Hospital Procedures, and Public Education to Promote Family Discussion.” The Milbank Quarterly 73 (3): 463-479; Hansmann, H. 1989. “The Economics and Ethics of Markets for Human Organs.” Journal of Health, Politics, and Policy and Law. (Spring): 57-85; Kaserman, D. L., and A. H. Barnett. 1991. “An Economic Analysis of Transplant Organs: A Comment and Extension.” Atlantic Economic Journal. 19 (June): 57-63; Prince, Dennis. 1999. “Organ for Sale—Not Wurlitzer.” http://www.auctionwatch.com/awdaily/dailynews/1-090399.html; Richards, J. R. 1996. “Nephrarious Goings On: Kidney Sales and Moral Arguments.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 21 (4) August: 375-416; Rottenberg, S. 1971. “The Production and Exchange of Used Body Parts.” Towards Liberty. 2: 322-333; Schwindt, R., and A. R. Vining. 1986. “Proposal for a Future Delivery Market for Transplant Organs.” Journal of Health Policy and Law. 11 (Fall): 483-500; Vining, A. R., and R. Schwindt. 1988. “Have a Heart: Increasing the Supply of Transplant Organs for Infants and Children.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 7 (4) 706-710; Williams, Walter. 2013. “Unnecessarty Tragedy.” June 11; http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams172.html

Transplant:: Body parts:: organs:: transplants:

Anderson, W. L., & Barnett, A. (April 1999). Waiting for Transplants The Free Market, 17(4). Retrieved from http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=29

Barnett, A. (Monday, February 15, 1999). Die Waiting. Mises Daily. Retrieved from http://mises.org/daily/146

Barnett, W. I., Saliba, M., & Walker, D. (Winter 2001). A Free Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable. The Independent Review, V(3), 373–385. Retrieved from http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_05_3_barnett.pdf

Barnett, William. 1988. The Market for Used Human Body Parts, The Free Market, Vol. 6, No. 2; http://mises.org/daily/4231.

Barnett, William II, and Michael Saliba. 2004. “A Free Market for Kidneys: Options, Futures, Forward, and Spot.” Managerial Finance. 30 (5): 38-56.

Beard, T. R., Jackson, J. D., & Kaserman, D. L. (Winter 2007-2008 ). The Failure of U.S. Organ Procurement Policy Regulation, 30(4). Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1092920

Block, Walter E., Roy Whitehead, Clint Johnson, Mana Davidson, Alan White and Stacy Chandler. 1999-2000. “Human Organ Transplantation: Economic and Legal Issues,” Quinnipiac College School of Law Health Journal, Vol. 3, pp. 87-110; http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/Human%20Oragn… <http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/Human%20Oragn… ; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/human_organ_transplantation.pdf

Block, Walter. 1987. “A Free Market in Kidneys?” The Freeman Ideas on Liberty, August, p. 308; http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=1802 <http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=1802 ; 8/25, Bensalem News.

Block, Walter. 1988. “Caveat Emptor,” The Freeman Ideas on Liberty, May, pp. 180-181, http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=1903.

Block, Walter. 1988. “The Case for a Free Market in Body Parts,” Essays in the Economics of Liberty: The Free Market Reader, Llewellyn Rockwell, ed., California: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, pp. 65-70, 195-199, 266-272. http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=476 http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=476

Block, Walter. June 2004. “Contracts.” Encyclopedia of Capitalism. New York: Facts On File, pp. 172-174

Carey, D. (Thursday, February 21, 2002 ). Let the Market Save Lives. Mises Daily. Retrieved from http://mises.org/daily/898

Cherry, Mark J., ed. 1999. Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Sale of Organs. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Clay, Megan and Walter E. Block. 2002. “A Free Market for Human Organs,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer, pp. 227-236;

Farber, Rafi. 2015. “On organ donation, Organ Sales, and Hypocrisy.” June 22;
On Organ Donation, Organ Sales, and Hypocrisy

Garner, Richard and Walter E. Block. 2008. “Harvesting organs on the final frontier: a critique of Star Trek.” Issue 2; pp. 65-xx. Ethics and Critical Thinking Journal; http://www.franklinpublishing.net/ethicscriticalthinking.html
http://www.walterblock.com/publications/market_human_organs.pdf <http://www.walterblock.com/publications/market_human_organs.pdf ; http://www.jspes.org/summer2002_clay.html

Healy, Kieran. 2006. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Hippen, Benjamin E. 2008. “Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran” Cato Policy Analysis, 614; http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9273

Kaserman, D. L. Markets for Organs: Myths and Misconceptions. Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, 18. Retrieved from http://ssrn.com/paper=327260

Kaserman, D. L., & Barnett, A. H. (2002). The U.S. Organ Procurement System: A Prescription for Reform (Evaluative Studies.). Washington D.C.: AEI Press.

Malek, N. P. (Friday, April 20, 2001). Sell Your Kidney, Make a Profit. Mises Daily. Retrieved from http://mises.org/daily/660

Richards, Janet Radcliffe. 2001. “Organs for sale.” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Vol. 9, No. 2, April-June; http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/092di047.html

Taylor, James Stacey. 2005. Stakes and Kidneys Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative Ashgate Publishing

Taylor, James Stacey. 2006. Why the ‘Black Market’ Arguments Against Legalizing Organ Sales Fail. Res Publica 12 (2).

Taylor, James Stacey. 2007. A “Queen of Hearts” Trial of Organ Markets: Why Scheper-Hughes’s Objections to Markets in Human Organs Fail. Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (4):201-204.

Young, A. (January 07, 2004). Organ Donations: Socialism or Laissez-Faire? Mises Daily. Retrieved from http://mises.org/daily/1414

Wilkinson, Stephen. 2003. Bodies for sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body trade. New York: Routledge

Williams, Walter. 2013. “Unnecessarty Tragedy.” June 11; http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams172.html

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Transplant:: Body parts:: organs:: transplants:: organ:: donation::

Anderson, 2003; Anderson and Barnett,1999; Barnett, A., 1999; Barnett, W. 1988; Barnett, Saliba, & Walker, 2001; Barnett and Saliba, 2004; Beard, Jackson & Kaserman, 2007-2008; Block, Whitehead, Johnson, Davidson, White and Chandler. 1999-2000; Block, 1987, 1988A,1988B; Carey, 2002; Cherry, 1999; Clay and Block. 2002; Farber, 2015A, 2015B; Garner and Block. 2008; Healy, 2006; Hippen, 2008; Kaserman, 2002; Kaserman & Barnett, 2002; Malek, 2001; Richards, 2001; Taylor, 2005, 2006, 2007; Wilkinson, 2003; Young, 2004

Anderson, William L. 2003. “Communitarianism and Commodification,” February 27;
http://mises.org/story/1174

Anderson, W. L., & Barnett, A. 1999. “Waiting for Transplants.” The Free Market, 17(4). http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=29

Barnett, Andy. 1999. “Die Waiting.” Mises Daily. http://mises.org/daily/146

Barnett, William II., Michael Saliba, & Deborah Walker. 2001. “A Free Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable.” The Independent Review, V(3), 373–385; http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_05_3_barnett.pdf

Barnett, William. 1988. The Market for Used Human Body Parts, The Free Market, Vol. 6, No. 2; http://mises.org/daily/4231.

Barnett, William II, and Michael Saliba. 2004. “A Free Market for Kidneys: Options, Futures, Forward, and Spot.” Managerial Finance. 30 (5): 38-56.

Barnett, William. 1988. The Market for Used Human Body Parts, The Free Market, Vol. 6, No. 2; http://mises.org/daily/4231.

Barnett, William II, and Michael Saliba. 2004. “A Free Market for Kidneys: Options, Futures, Forward, and Spot.” Managerial Finance. 30 (5): 38-56.

Beard, T. R., Jackson, J. D., & Kaserman, D. L. 2007-2008. “The Failure of U.S. Organ Procurement Policy.” Regulation, 30(4); http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1092920

Block, Walter E., Roy Whitehead, Clint Johnson, Mana Davidson, Alan White and Stacy Chandler. 1999-2000. “Human Organ Transplantation: Economic and Legal Issues,” Quinnipiac College School of Law Health Journal, Vol. 3, pp. 87-110; http://141.164.133.3/faculty/Block/Articles%20for%20web/Human%20Oragn; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/human_organ_transplantation.pdf

Block, Walter E. 1987. “A Free Market in Kidneys?” The Freeman Ideas on Liberty, August, p. 308; http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=1802 <http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=1802 ;

Block, Walter. 1988A. “Caveat Emptor,” The Freeman Ideas on Liberty, May, pp. 180-181, http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=1903.

Block, Walter. 1988B. “The Case for a Free Market in Body Parts,” Essays in the Economics of Liberty: The Free Market Reader, Llewellyn Rockwell, ed., California: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, pp. 65-70, 195-199, 266-272; http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=476

Carey, D. 2002 . “Let the Market Save Lives.” Mises Daily. February 21; http://mises.org/daily/898

Cherry, Mark J., ed. 1999. Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Sale of Organs. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Clay, Megan and Walter E. Block. 2002. “A Free Market for Human Organs,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer, pp. 227-236;
http://www.walterblock.com/publications/market_human_organs.pdf;
http://www.jspes.org/summer2002_clay.html

Farber, Rafi. 2015A. “On organ donation, Organ Sales, and Hypocrisy.” June 22;
On Organ Donation, Organ Sales, and Hypocrisy

Farber, Rafi. 2015B. “Shock and Awe! Rabbi Shmuly Supports Human Organ Sales .” October 5; http://www.targetliberty.com/2015/10/shock-and-awe-rabbi-shmuly-supports.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TargetLiberty+%28Target+Liberty%29

Garner, Richard and Walter E. Block. 2008. “Harvesting organs on the final frontier: a critique of Star Trek.” Issue 2; pp. 65-75. Ethics and Critical Thinking Journal; http://www.franklinpublishing.net/ethicscriticalthinking.html
http://www.walterblock.com/publications/market_human_organs.pdf

Healy, Kieran. 2006. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Hippen, Benjamin E. 2008. “Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran.” Cato Policy Analysis, 614; http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9273

Kaserman, D. L. 2002. “Markets for Organs: Myths and Misconceptions.” Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, 18; http://ssrn.com/paper=327260

Kaserman, D. L., & Barnett, A. H. 2002. The U.S. Organ Procurement System: A Prescription for Reform (Evaluative Studies). Washington D.C.: AEI Press.

Malek, N. P. 2001. Sell Your Kidney, Make a Profit. Mises Daily. April 20, http://mises.org/daily/660

Richards, Janet Radcliffe. 2001. “Organs for sale.” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Vol. 9, No. 2, April-June; http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/092di047.html

Taylor, James Stacey. 2005. Stakes and Kidneys Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative. Ashgate Publishing

Taylor, James Stacey. 2006. “Why the ‘Black Market’ Arguments Against Legalizing Organ Sales Fail.” Res Publica 12 (2).

Taylor. James Stacey. 2007. “A ‘Queen of Hearts’ Trial of Organ Markets: Why Scheper-Hughes’s Objections to Markets in Human Organs Fail.” Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (4):201-204.

Young, Adam. 2004. “Organ Donations: Socialism or Laissez-Faire?” Mises Daily. January 07; http://mises.org/daily/1414

Wilkinson, Stephen. 2003. Bodies for sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body trade. New York: Routledge

Con:

Etzoini, Undated; Scheper-Hughes, 2002, 2005; Sullivan, 1983;

Etzioni, Amitai. Undated. “Organ Donation: A Communitarian Approach.”
https://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/Organ_Donation.pdf

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 2002. “The Ends of the Body–Commodity Fetishism and the Global Traffic in Organs” SAIS Review 22(1):61-80, January; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236821086_The_Ends_of_the_Body–Commodity_Fetishism_and_the_Global_Traffic_in_Organs

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 2005. “The Ultimate Commodity.” The Lancet.
Volume 366, No. 9494, pp. 1349–1350, 15 October
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67550-2/abstract

Sullivan, Walter. 1983. “Buying of kidneys of poor attacked.” September 24;
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/24/us/buying-of-kidneys-of-poor-attacked.html

2. Health:: Socialized medicine:: health care:

Block, 2003; Friedman, 1962; Goodman and Musgrave, 1992; Gratzer, 2005; Hamowy, 1984; Herbener, 1996; Holly, 2013; Hoppe, 1993; Johnson, et.al., 1998; Laydon and Block, 1996; McGuff and Murphy, 2015; Porter, 2006; Terrell, 2003.

Block, Walter. 2003. “Socialized Medicine is the Problem,” Surgical Neurology, Vol. 60, No. 5, November, pp. 467-46

Friedman, Milton. 1962. Capitalism and Freedom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, chapter 9

Goodman, John C. and Gerald L. Musgrave, 1992. Patient Power: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis. Washington D.C.: Cato

Gratzer, David. 2005. “The Return of HillaryCare: Socialized medicine is still not a good idea. The Weekly Standard. May 23; http://www.medicalprogresstoday.com/spotlight/spotlight_indarchive.php?id=778

Hamowy, Ronald. 1984. Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute

Herbener, Jeffrey. 1996. “Socialized Medicine, Take Two.” The Free Market. Vol. 14, No. 7, July. http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=172&sortorder=articledate

Holly, Mike.2013. “How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive.” December 17;
http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/12/how-government-regulations-made-healthcare-so-expensive/

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 1993. “A Four-Step Health-Care Solution.” The Free Market. Vol. 11, No. 4, April; http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=279

Johnson, Clint, Walter E. Block and Thomas Oxner. 1998. “Notes on Health Care Financing and Free Markets,” Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 488-502.

Layden, William R. and Walter E. Block. 1996. “Health Security,” Nomos, July, No. 47/48, pp. 38-45

McGuff, Doug and Robert P. Murphy. 2015. The Primal Prescription: Surviving the “Sick Care” Sinkhole; http://store.mises.org/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-The-Sick-Care-Sinkhole-P11014.aspx

Porter, Michael 2006. Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results: Harvard Business Review Press. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591397782/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_dp_T2_GoRuzbVZG2TDD

Terrell, Timothy D. 2003. “Socialized Medicine in America.” The Free Market. Vol. 23, No. 11, November; http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=458&sortorder=articledate

Socialized medicine: queues:

Barua, et. al., 2010; DiLorenzo, 2009; Esmail, 2009A, 2009B, 2011; Globerman and Hoye, 1990; Hazel and Esmail, 2008; Sanmartin et al., 2004;

Barua, Bacchus, Mark Rovere, and Brett J. Skinner. 2010. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada (20th ed.). Fraser Institute.

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. 2009. “Socialized Healthcare vs. The Laws Of Economics,” Mises Daily, no. 3586; July 28; http://mises.org/daily/3586

Esmail, Nadeem. 2009A. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada (19th ed.). Fraser Institute

Esmail, Nadeem. 2009B. The Private Cost Of Public Queues, 2009. Fraser Forum (November):32-36.

Esmail, Nadeem. 2011. “The private cost of public queues.” Fraser Forum, March/April, pp. 22-27; http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/articles/private-cost-of-public-queues-march2011.pdf

Globerman, Steven, with Lorna Hoye. 1990. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada. Fraser Institute.

Hazel, Maureen and Nadeem Esmail. 2008. The Private Cost of Public Queues. Fraser Forum (December/January):25–29.

Sanmartin, Claudia, François Gendron, Jean-Marie Berthelot, and Kellie Murphy. 2004. Access to Health Care Services in Canada, 2003. Catalogue No. 82-575-XIE.

H.T. Engelhardt, Jr., and Kevin W. Wildes, S.J., “The Four Principles of Health Care and Post-Modernity: Why a Libertarian Interpretation is Unavoidable,” Principles of Health Care Ethics, ed. Raanan Gillon (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994), pp. 135-147.

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