Defending the Undefendable.

BLOCK (Walter)., ROTHBARD (Murray)., Foreword. & HAYEK (Friedrich August von)., Commentary.

Defending the Undefendable.

SOMETHING TO OFFEND EVERYONE

Foreword by Murray N. Rothbard. Illustrations by Rodrigues. First edition, first printing. 8vo. 256 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (creasing to lower corners of pp. 156-158, not effecting text, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; jacket with a few closed tears and chipping to extremities with minor rubbing, a very good copy indeed). New York, Fleet Press Corporation, 1976.

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BLOCK (Walter)., ROTHBARD (Murray)., Foreword. & HAYEK (Friedrich August von)., Commentary.

Defending the Undefendable.

The work of a provocative polemicist and anarcho-capitalist, Walter Block (b. 1941), Defending the Undefendable presents a number of extreme case studies including ‘The Employer of Child Labour’, ‘The Male Chauvinist Pig’, and ‘The Pimp’ in an attempt to “demonstrate their considerable economic and social merit” (dust jacket blurb).

At its core, this is an extreme attempt to rationalise the free market position. “Popular fallacies in economics frequently express themselves in unfounded prejudices against other occupations, and in showing the falsity of these stereotypes you are doing a real service, although you will not make yourself more popular with the majority” (von Hayek in the Commentary).

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