Listen to our latest podcast where Mr. Block discusses his co-authored publication Selling Sex: (More) Evidence for Decriminalization. Mr. Block discusses analyzing sex work from the point of view of the same labor economics that would be applied to any other industry, rather than as a romanticized or demonized group of sexual deviants, finding destigmatization of the sex work industry as central to the increased agency and well-being of sex workers and their clients. The full text of Faelynn Carroll and Mr. Block’s article can be found here.
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Our guest today is Walter Block.
Walter Block
Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics in the College of Business at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Mises Institute and the Hoover Institute. Block has previously taught at the University of Central Arkansas, Holy Cross College, Baruch (C.U.N.Y.) and Rutgers Universities. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College (C.U.N.Y.) in 1964 and a Ph.D. degree in economics from Columbia University in 1972.
Walter Block is the author of over two dozen books. His most famous one, Defending the Undefendable (1976) – has been translated into over a dozen foreign languages. Block has contributed over 600 articles and reviews to scholarly refereed journals and law reviews. He has written several thousand op-ed articles, newspaper columns, chapters in books, etc. He also gives numerous speeches to civic and educational institutions and appears regularly on television and radio. Block has encouraged the publications of his students which start out as term papers for his courses, over 100 of which have appeared in refereed journals.
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