From: R
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2019 1:51 AM
To: Walter Block <[email protected]>
Subject: Market Intervention

Dr. Block,

As a Libertarian I believe in the free market. That said, those who have been acting in an interventionist market with free/printed money have bought up material assets in not just property but pathways. We cannot simply say that the market will correct itself when looking at media corporations that have a monopoly on the platform delivery systems themselves. For example saying that each car manufacturer should compete in the free market and the market will decide who has the best quality car, when one or two car manufacturers OWN THE ROADS on which one can even drive and the roads to any car dealership to buy a competing car. Big media controls the ACCESS to even see or be able purchase a competing product or service. How do we address that? R.F

From: Walter Block [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2019 11:25 AM
To: R
Subject: RE: Market Intervention

There’s legal entry to compete with amazon, apple, microsoft, right? So, there’s no monopoly in that industry.

Here are some of my publications on monopoly and anti-trust:

Anderson, et al., 2001; Block, 1977, 1982, 1994, 1999A, 1999B, 2008, 2009, 2017; Barnett, Block and Saliba, 2005, 2007; Hilland and Block, 2014; Raskin and Block, 2007; Rothschild and Block, 2016; Sløk-Madsen and Block, 2018; Wysocki and Block, 2018.

Anderson, William, Walter E. Block, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ilana Mercer, Leon Snyman and Christopher Westley. 2001. “The Microsoft Corporation in Collision with Antitrust Law,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring, pp. 287-302; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/microsoft_antitrust.pdf; http://www.jspes.org/spring2001_anderson.html; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228250112_The_Microsoft_Corporation_in_Collision_with_Antitrust_Law?ev=prf_pub

Block, Walter E. 1977. “Austrian Monopoly Theory — a Critique,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. I, No. 4, fall, pp. 271-279; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/1_4/1_4_1.pdf

Block, Walter E. 11/14/81. “Abiding flaws in competition proposals,” The Financial Post.

Block, Walter E. 1982. A Response to the Framework Document for Amending the Combines Investigation Act, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute. (60 pages) isbn: 0-88975-051-3; First Part: https://www.scribd.com/doc/252440414/A-Response-to-the-Framework-Document-1-29; Second Part: https://www.scribd.com/doc/252440427/A-Response-to-the-Framework-Document-30-60

Block, Walter E. ed. 1986. Reaction: The New Combines Investigation Act, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute;http://www.fraserinstitute.org/researchandpublications/publications/7083.aspx

Block, Walter E. 1994. “Total Repeal of Anti-trust Legislation: A Critique of Bork, Brozen and Posner, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 35-70. http://www.mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/rae8_1_3.pdf

http://www.mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/r81_3.pdf

Block, Walter E. 1999A. “Naked Exclusion,” Humanomics. Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 141-148; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1672581; 10.1108/eb018843;

Block, Walter E. 1999B. “Optimal Export Policy for a New Product Monopoly: Comment on Bagwell,” Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 29-32; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1881051

Block, Walter E. 2008. “Market monopoly is apodictically impossible” Corporate Ownership & Control. Vol. 5, Issue 3, Spring (Continued-3), pp. 385-389

Block, Walter E. 2017. “Radical Privatization: Oceans, Roads, Heavenly Bodies.” Romanian Economic and Business Review, Vol. 12, Summer, pp. 41-56; https://econpapers.repec.org/article/raujournl/v_3a12_3ay_3a2017_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a41-56.htm; http://www.rebe.rau.ro/RePEc/rau/journl/SU17/REBE-SU17-A4.pdf

Barnett, William II, Walter E. Block and Michael Saliba. 2005. “Perfect Competition: A Case of ‘Market-Failure,’” Corporate Ownership & Control. Vol. 2, No. 4, summer, p. 70-75; http://www.academia.edu/1355598/Perfect_Competition_A_Case_of_Market-Failure

Barnett, William II, Walter E. Block and Michael Saliba. 2007. “Predatory pricing.” Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 4, No. 4, Continued – 3, Summer; pp. 401-406;http://virtusinterpress.org/additional_files/journ_coc/issues/COC_(Volume_4_Issue_4_Summer_2007_Continued3).pdf 9 (pp. 397-…)

Block, Walter E. and William Barnett. 2009. “Monopsony Theory.” American Review of Political Economy June/December, Vol. 7(1/2), pp. 67-109; https://sites.bemidjistate.edu/arpejournal/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/12/v7n1-2-block-barnett.pdf; http://www.arpejournal.com/

Hillman, Jordan and Walter E. Block. 2014. “Poker and Gambling: A Positive Competitive Game.” Competitiveness Review. Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 433-443; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/CR-07-2013-0065; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/cr/24/5;http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/CR-07-2013-0065.

Rothschild, Daniel Y. and Block, Walter E. 2016. “Don’t Steal; The Government Hates Competition: The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture.” The Journal of Private Enterprise, 31(1): 45-56; http://journal.apee.org/index.php/2016_Journal_of_Private_Enterprise_vol_31_no_1_parte4.pdf

Raskin, Max and Walter E. Block. 2007. “Justice Department Goes After Gates’ Foundation.” July 3;http://archive.lewrockwell.com/raskin/raskin19.html

Sløk-Madsen, Stefan K. and Walter E. Block. 2018. “Who should own the North Pole? LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources, Vol. VI., No. 2, pp. 477-503;

https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/; https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol6/iss2/9/;https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol6/iss2/9

Wysocki, Igor and Walter E. Block. 2018. “An analysis of the supply curve: does it depict homogeneity among its constituent elements? Another rejoinder to Nozick.”  Management Education Science Technology Journal (MEST). pp. 1-11;

http://www.meste.org/mest/MEST_Najava_clanaka.html;

http://mest.meste.org/MEST_Najava/XI_Wysocki.pdf; DOI 10.12709/issn.2334-7058;

The Best of Walter E. Block