Defending the Undefendable: The Pimp, Prostitute, Scab, Slumlord, Libeler, Moneylender, and Other Scapegoats in the Rogue's Gallery of American Society

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Fox & Wilkes, San Francisco, CA, 1991

0930073053 / 9780930073053

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232 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: For many years, few market economists have shown how market activities benefit the often heedless public. Ever since the days of Adam Smith, they have shown how producers and businessmen, generally motivated solely by personal gain, unwittingly confer enormous benefits on the general public. By seeking to maximize their profits and minimize losses, for example, businessmen are driven in the most efficient way. Economists have long show these truths in the most efficient way. Economists have long show these truths in the abstract; and in the recent years they have added to our knowledge by illustrating in case after case, in the concrete, the superiority and efficiency of private operation. By the inquiries of economists have been confined, with sober pedantry, to the "respectable" industries: to such activities as agriculture, natural gas, housing, airways, and so forth. Until this book, no economist has had the courage of Professor Walter Block in tackling head on the moral and economic status of the dozens of reviled, scorned, and grievously misunderstood professions and occupations in our society: those whom he rightly calls the "economic scapegoats." Fearlessly, and with logic and trenchant wit, Professor Block rehabilitates and demonstrates the considerable economic merits of such scapegoat occupations as the pimp, the blackmailer, and the slumlord.…

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Titolo
Defending the Undefendable: The Pimp, Prostitute, Scab, Slumlord, Libeler, Moneylender, and Other Scapegoats in the Rogue's Gallery of American Society
Autore
Block, Walter; Walter Block (Author); Murray N. Rothbard (Foreword by)
Editore
Fox & Wilkes, San Francisco, CA
Anno di pubblicazione
1991
Condizione
Like New
Rilegatura
Trade Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0930073053
ISBN 13
9780930073053
Disegnatore
Rodrigues
Edizione
seconda edizione
Dimensioni
8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
Cataloghi dei venditori
Academic, Scholarly, Research, American Studies, History, Politics & Culture, Social History & Studies, Comparative Sociology

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