Free Markets
Free Market Environmentalism, 1980s
Walter Block is interviewed on the topic of Free Market Environmentalism in the 1980s.
Business Ethics and the Environment
Presented at “The Economy and the Environment” seminar, hosted by the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga on 2 April 1991.
What Really Happened at Plymouth
The first form of government in the New World was an emergency measure to maintain the Pilgrim control over the servants and other settlers.
Environmental Problems, Libertarian Solutions
Recorded at the 1990 ISIL World Libertarian Convention.
The Social Function of Stock Speculators
Despite their horrible reputation, stock speculators perform a crucial service in the market economy. Their attempts to buy low and sell high quickly eliminate mispricings in the stock market.
Globalization: The Long-Run Big Picture
Globalization is the process of bringing the entire world into the system of division of labor and thus into the system of social cooperation…
Why Wal-Mart Matters
Rather, the popular debate over Wal-Mart is an important part of a broader debate between freedom and interventionism. Those who vilify Wal-Mart do so not for Wal-Mart's political failings but for Wal-Mart's economic successes.
Ethics and Economics: Walter Block vs. David Boileau
Walter Block debates Rev. David Bolieau on the topics of ethics and economics.
How “Sweatshops” Help the Poor
With few exceptions, American unions have long been at the forefront of anti-capitalist ideology and have supported virtually all the destructive tax and regulatory policies that have been so poisonous to American capitalism.