Moneylender, and Other Scapegoats in the
Rogue’s Gallery of American Society
Fearlessly, and with logic and trenchant wit, Professor Block rehabilitates and demonstrates the considerable economic merits of such scapegoat occupations as the pimp, the blackmailer, and the slumlord.
In this way, in addition to redeeming the stature of these much
reviled occupations, Defending the Undefendable performs the service of highlighting, in the fullest and starkest terms, the essential nature of the productive services performed by all people in the free market. By taking the most extreme examples and showing how the Smithian principles work even in these cases, the book does far more to demonstrate the workability and morality of the free market than a dozen sober tomes on more respectable industries and activities. By testing and proving the extreme cases, he all the more illustrates and vindicates the theory.- From the forward by Murray Rothbard.
Block is now preparing a follow-up volume, and he's taking suggestions for new "undefendables”.
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