The Privatization of Roads and Highways - Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Roads and the Immigration Issue
There is a debate now raging within libertarian circles concerning
the immigration issue. 1 Should government
restrict immigration, or should people be allowed to cross
international borders with impunity, without any leaves or permissions
granted by the state? We consider this issue in the
1 Walter Block, “Ethics, Efficiency, Coasean Property Rights and Psychic
Income: A Reply to Demsetz,” Review of Austrian Economics 8, no. 2 (1995):
61–125; Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics
and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New
Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 159–60, n. 10; Walter
Block and Gene Callahan, “Is There a Right to Immigration? A Libertarian
Perspective,” Human Rights Review 5, no. 1 (October–December, 2003);
Julian Simon, The Economic Consequences of Immigration (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1989); James L. Hudson, “The Philosophy of Immigration,” Journal of
Libertarian Studies 8, no. 1 (Winter, 1986): 51–62; David Gordon, “The Invisible
Hoppe,” Mises Review (Winter, 1997); Donald Boudreaux, “A Free Market
Case Against Open Immigration?” The Freeman (October 1996); Peter
Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense about America’s Immigration Disaster
(New York: Random House, 1995); Patrick J. Buchanan, The Death of the
West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country
and Civilization (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002); William L. Anderson,
“Immigration Quandary” (June 24, 2004), http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=567&id=68.
See also Journal of Libertarian Studies 13, no. 2
(1997) for several other contributions to this topic.
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