Defending the Defendable
Defending the Defendable

Author(s): Clifford F. Thies
Subject(s): Economy, Political Philosophy, Economic policy
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Walter Block; Defending the Undefendable; Economic Freedom; Libertarianism;
Summary/Abstract: Walter Block and I go back a long way, to or almost to the days of Ayn Rand’s inner circle and Ludwig von Mises’ seminar at New York University. In Walter’s case, he followed Murray Rothbard to Columbia University. There, Walter wrote his dissertation on rent control under Gary Becker, gaining his Ph.D. in 1972.1 He then bounced from one to another academic position in the New York metropolitan area before landing at the Fraser Institute in British Columbia in 1979 as senior economist. In 1991, he was named Associate Professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts; and, in 1997, Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance and Professor at the University of Central Arkansas. In 2001, he was named the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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