Raising My Glass to Walter Block
Raising My Glass to Walter Block

Author(s): Benjamin Abelow
Subject(s): Economy, Political Philosophy, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Walter’s career tribute; intellectual influence; prolific scholarship; personal gratitude;
Summary/Abstract: I wish to add my congratulations to Walter on his remarkable, distinguished, and invaluable career. I have listened to dozens of Walter’s lectures and interviews over the years and learned a great deal from them. I have also written to Walter several times to ask for reading suggestions on various economic topics - and I have been consistently awed not only by his generous responses, but by the sheer number of relevant articles that he himself has penned. At this moment, I wish I could write more in honor of Walter, but I cannot; I burned myself out working on another project involving U.S. foreign policy and the Ukraine war, and I and can’t get my brain in gear for more writing now. Unlike Walter, who is remarkably prolific and, it seems, preternaturally fluent in his output, my writing is often painstaking, and sometimes, like now, I just hit a wall. So, to Walter, I raise my glass from afar and say, “Thank you for the intellectual enrichment and pleasure you have provided me.”

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