
The Privatization of Roads and Highways
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Walter Block
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The Mises Institute is pleased to introduce Walter Block's remarkable new treatise on private roads that'll cause you to rethink the whole of the way modern transportation networks operate. It's bold, innovative, radical, and compelling and shows how free-market economic theory is the clarifying lens through which to see the failures of the state and see the alternative that's consistent with human liberty.
He shows that even the worst off-the-cuff scenario of life under private ownership of roads would be fantastic by comparison to the existing reality of government ownership of roads, which is awful in ways we don't entirely realize until Block fully explains them (think: highway deaths).
But that's only the beginning of what Professor Block has done. He has made a lengthy, detailed, and positive case that the privatization of roads would be socially optimal in every way. It would save lives, curtail pollution, save us (as individuals!) money, save us massive time, introduce accountability, and make transportation a pleasure instead of a huge pain in the neck.
Because this is the first-ever complete book on this topic, the length and detail are absolutely necessary. He shows that this isn't some libertarian pipe dream but the most practical application of free-market logic. Block is dealing with something that confronts us every day. And in so doing, he illustrates the power of economic theory to take an existing set of facts and help see them in a completely different way.
What's also nice is that the prose has great passion about it, despite its scholarly detail. Block loves answering the objections (aren't roads public goods? Aren't roads too expensive to build privately?) and making the case, fully aware that he has to overcome a deep and persistent bias in favor of public ownership.
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Please be aware the mistakes have been corrected and files replaced at Audible. Thank you to all who submitted feedback.
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a fantastic read
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Very well read editing could be better
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great info, but not edited
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The author also makes reference to studies on thing that are no longer relevant. A Nador study on roads from the 1970s is almost irrelevant, with the only relevance being that roads still exist, cars still drive on them, and people still die.
Laying the blame on the bureaucracy for deaths when the free market has put more items in the vehicles to create distractions. Touch screens in all knew cars, smartphones, and full on entertainment systems. While the full adoption of these items occurred after the book was published, it is had for me to see how the bureaucracy is responsible for these items.
Reader beware that the Author just tries to beat you down with the same study again and again.
Let's retread the same 1980s information
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Mostly Dumb and Boring
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Audible: Whomever edited this book and says they finished the job needs to be promptly fired. I understand the content is a bit dry to some, but if you're going to pay someone to edit a book, the mistakes, and the reader's groaning about them shouldn't be part of the reader experience.
Could someone please edit this file?
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Great book but repetitive and poorly edited
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