Dear Walter,
how are things? Are you all well? The only freedom left in Poland is to stay home. So I write papers. I wrote a rejoinder to you on indifference. I remember yours was published already, so I wouldn’t change the outlet. Would you tell me where to submit it? Let the debate roll on in the same journal. With all best wishes.
And please let me know how you’re doing!
Regards
Igor Wysocki
Dear Igor:
I’m doing ok, thanks. That’s a silver lining: we get to do more writing, research, publishing!
I’ve written quite a bit about indifference, I’m not sure what you’re referring to:
Block, 1980, 2009A, 2009B, 2012, unpublished; Block and Barnett, 2010; Block and Sotelo, 2012; Sotelo and Block, 2014
Block, Walter E. 1980. “On Robert Nozick’s ‘On Austrian Methodology’.” Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 4, Fall, pp. 397-444; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/on_robert_nozick.pdf;
http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/on_robert_nozick.pdf; Spanish translation, Libertas, Vol. 14, No. 26, May 1997, pp. 71-131
Block, Walter E. 2009A. “Rejoinder to Machaj on Indifference,” New Perspectives on Political Economy, Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 65-71; http://pcpe.libinst.cz/nppe/5_1/nppe5_1_5.pdf
Block, Walter E. 2009B. “Rejoinder to Hoppe on indifference” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics; Vol. 12, No. 1: 52–59; http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae12_1_4.pdf
Block, Walter E. 2012. “Response to Ben O’Neill on indifference.” Dialogue; Issue No. 2, pp. 76-93; https://www.uni-svishtov.bg/dialog_old/2012/2.12.7.pdf
Block, Walter E. Unpublished. “Rejoinder to Wysocki on Indifference and the Block-Hoppe Debate Thereon.”
Block, Walter E. with William Barnett II. 2010. “Rejoinder to Hoppe on indifference, once again.” Reason Papers, Vol. 32, pp. 141-154; http://reasonpapers.com/pdf/32/rp_32_9.pdf
Block, Walter E. and Jose Antonio Manuel Aguirre Sotelo. 2012. “Indifference curve analysis: beyond simplifying assumptions,” The Journal for Economics Educators; Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 7-12; http://frank.mtsu.edu/~jee/2012/2_MS1211_pp7to12.pdf; http://capone.mtsu.edu/jee/2012/2_MS1211_pp7to12.pdf
Rothbard, M. 2004. Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles with Power and Market, Scholar’s Edition (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute).
Sotelo, Jose Antonio Manuel Aguirre and Walter E. Block. 2014. “Indifference Curve Analysis: The correct and the incorrect.” Oeconomia Copernicana; Vol. 5, No. 4; http://apcz.pl/czasopisma/index.php/OeC/article/view/OeC.2014.025
Debate between Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Nozick’s methodology and indifference::
1. Block, Walter E. 1980. “On Robert Nozick’s ‘On Austrian Methodology’.” Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 4, Fall, pp. 397-444; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/on_robert_nozick.pdf;
http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/on_robert_nozick.pdf; Spanish translation, Libertas, Vol. 14, No. 26, May 1997, pp. 71-131
2. Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 2005. “Must Austrians Embrace Indifference?” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 8 (4): 87–91; online at: http://www.Mises.org/story/2003.
3. Block, Walter E. 2009. “Rejoinder to Hoppe on Indifference” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics; Vol. 12, No. 1: 52–59; http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae12_1_4.pdf
4. Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 2009. “Further Notes on Preference and Indifference: Rejoinder to Block,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 12, no. 1, pp. 60-64, http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae12_1_5.pdf.
5. Block, Walter E. with William Barnett II. 2010. “Rejoinder to Hoppe on indifference, once again.” Reason Papers, Vol. 32, pp. 141-154; http://reasonpapers.com/pdf/32/rp_32_9.pdf
“Perhaps these divisions amongst scholars who might be expected to agree are due to the fact that we are all imperfect human beings. Perhaps some young scholar(s) will one day come along and definitively solve all of these disputes in such a way that all present parties to them will agree to the solution. Until that time, the most we can do, I think, is to do our best—to publish our ideas, imperfect as they are, in the hope that the process of public debate itself will shed some light on these vexing issues. Two heads are better than one, and all of the professionals who read this journal, plus the two of us (Hoppe and the two present authors), are better than just the three of us alone.”
Block, Walter E. 2012. “Response to Ben O’Neill on indifference.” Dialogue; Issue No. 2, pp. 76-93; https://www.uni-svishtov.bg/dialog_old/2012/2.12.7.pdf
Block, Walter E. 2009. “Rejoinder to Machaj on Indifference,” New Perspectives on Political Economy, Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 65-71; http://pcpe.libinst.cz/nppe/5_1/nppe5_1_5.pdf
3:02 am on June 26, 2020
