From: David Day
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 7:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject:

Dear Mr. Block,

I enjoyed listening to you on the Tom Wood’s show last week. You had mentioned on his show that you do believe that human’s aren’t biologically wired to accept free markets (or something to that effect). If you find time, could you elaborate? For some background, I found libertarianism as a Republican and switched to the Libertarian party in 2016. But even whenever I considered myself a Republican I had thought, or at the very least, had a hunch that human’s in particular are driven to more regulatory markets because it tends to be a more comforting idea.

I look forward to your response, but also understand if I don’t hear back.

Sincerely,

David Day

P.S. – I work in Metairie and I got super excited whenever he introduced you as a professor at Tulane!

Dear David:

I’m a professor at Loyola, not Tulane.

Here’s the material you’re asking for:

Levendis, John, Walter E. Block and Robert B. Eckhardt.  2019. “Evolutionary psychology, economic freedom, trade and benevolence.” Review of Economic Perspectives – Národohospodářský obzor; Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 73-92; https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/revecp/19/2/article-p73.xml; 10.2478/revecp-2019-0005; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2019-0005; https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/here-is-one-of-my-best-scholarly-papers-ever/; https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/evolutionary-psychology-economic-freedom-trade-and-benevolence

Best regards,

Walter

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