Walter Block
7:40 AM
to Steve, Economics, chriswsurprena., me
Dear Steve:
I have already shared this with a fifth person, Bob Wenzel, and now do so again, in just the same manner as you shared this with a fourth person, Chris. I am delighted that you will not speak here. I regard you as an intellectual coward. You make public accusations against me. I said that people responsible for the minimum wage ought to be in jail. You publicly say I’m an embarrassment to the free market movement, or words to that effect, I forget your exact words. Then, I challenge you to a debate while you’re here in New Orleans. You decline (well, not exactly decline, but make such onerous demands that a debate is unfeasible). Also, you misconstrue my words and interpret me as saying that I think a debate would be against the interests of my students. I strongly support my students and resent that remark, also. Come to think of it, I’m also sharing this entire discussion with my econ colleagues at Loyola. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Best regards,
Walter
Walter E. Block, Ph.D.
Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics
Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business
Loyola University New Orleans
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Block To Horwitz: I Regard You as an Intellectual Coward
With regard the email exchange between Walter Block and Steve Horwitz, Dr. Block has added this email:
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There are, maybe, 200 free-market/libertarian economists in all of the world; yet we have to fight with each other, call each other names and write each other out of the movement for some alleged error in judgment. Boy, that's a good strategy. Come on guys, put your petty differences aside, grow up and get with the program. We need everyone aboard to instruct the profession in economic truth and repeal a whole host of dumb public policies. Enough already.
ReplyDeleteThe differences between Block & Horwitz aren't petty, and I would barely consider Horwitz to even be an economist, much less a free market economist. He spends far more time complaining about social justice than he does economics.
DeleteHe's an Austrian economist with a Ph.D. from George Mason Uni. He's written 3 austro-centric books and published numerous articles on Mises, Hayek, Menger, et al. He's on our side.
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