Privatize Roads and Highways
March 8, 2017
From: MF
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 11:03 AM
To: Walter Block
Subject: Hello Dr Block. I read this article in the NYT about highway accidents and I immediately though of your excellent work on privatization. Nowhere in this argument is there any consideration that privatization could address these problems. If you and I owned a highway we would use all legal voluntary contractual means at our disposal to compel drivers or customers on our road to not allow themselves to be impaired or distracted by cell phones or whatever else.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/a-public-health-crisis-that-we-can-fix.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20170307&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=2&nlid=76594261&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0
Thank you for your work on this. It really gave me the tools to think more critically about these important issues. MF.
Dear MF: Thanks for mentioning this book of mine. Every author hopes his book will do some good, and, happily, mine did, with you:
Block, Walter E. 2009. The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors; Auburn, AL: The Mises Institute; http://www.amazon.com/Privatization-Roads-And-Highways-Factors/dp/1279887303/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336605800&sr=1-1; available for free here: http://mises.org/books/roads_web.pdf; http://mises.org/daily/3416; http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/radical_privatization.pdf; audio: http://store.mises.org/Privatization-of-Roads-and-Highways-Audiobook-P11005.aspx; http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-Privatization-of-Roads-and-Highways-Audiobook/B0167IT18K?tag=misesinsti-20; http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=bf16b152ccc444bdbbcc229e4&id=6cbc90577b&e=54244ea97d
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