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Defending the Undefendable
AuthorWalter Block
LanguageEnglish
Subjectmoral philosophy, political economy
PublisherFleet Press
Publication date1976; 2008 Mises Institute edition
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePaperback
Pages256
ISBN9781933550176
OCLC248638106
Dewey Decimal973.925
LC ClassHB95 .B58

Defending the Undefendable is a book by Walter Block originally published in 1976 which defends various classes of individuals whom conventional wisdom would regard as undesirables. Block is best known for the book which Marcus Epstein describes as defending "pimps, drug dealers, blackmailers, corrupt policemen, and loan sharks as 'economic heroes'." The book advocates for the application of the non-aggression principle of libertarianism also in non-popular cases and support privatization of all public services. It has been translated into ten foreign languages.

Cable news pundit John Stossel said of it, "Defending the Undefendable... opened my eyes to the beauties of libertarianism. It explains that so much of what is assumed to be evil – is not." In 2011, writing that economics "illuminates what common sense overlooks", Stossel called the book "eye-opening" and detailed its contents.

References

  1. Walter Block, Defending the Defendable book reprint, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008 version.
  2. Defending the Truly Undefendable
  3. Walter Block faculty page, Loyola University New Orleans, accessed July 31, 2013.
  4. American Spectator, December, 2006, p. 37.
  5. John Stossel, Almost Everything We're Taught Is Wrong, Using economics to explode fallacies, Reason, August 25, 2011.

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