Evictionism

Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, and senior fellow at the Mises Institute. He earned his PhD in economics at Columbia University in 1972. He has taught at Rutgers, SUNY Stony Brook, Baruch CUNY, Holy Cross and the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than 500 refereed articles in professional journals, two dozen books, and thousands of op eds. He lectures widely on college campuses, delivers seminars around the world and appears regularly on television and radio shows.  He is the Schlarbaum Laureate, Mises Institute, 2011; and has won the Loyola University Research Award (2005, 2008) and the Mises Institute’s Rothbard Medal of Freedom, 2005; and the Dux Academicus award, Loyola University, 2007.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part II: What is evictionism? The background.- Chapter 2. What is evictionism?.- Part III: Response to libertarian critiques of evictionism.- Chapter 3. Responses to three leading libertarians: Rothbard, Paul and Rand.- Chapter 4. Rejoinder to Doris Gordon on abortion.- Chapter 5. Response to Friedman on Narveson on abortion.- Chapter 6. Comment on Narveson on Friedman on abortion.- Part IV: Response to non-libertarian critiques of evictionism.- Chapter 7. Rejoinder to Boonin on abortion.- Chapter 8. A Response to Beckwith’s book review of Boonin.- Chapter 9. Deadlocked; a reaction to McDonagh and Ford on abortion.- Chapter 10. Response to Lee’s “A Christian Philosopher’s View of Recent Directions in the Abortion Debate.”.- Chapter 11. Marquis on abortion.- Chapter 12. Tooley on abortion: a rejoinder.