The Privatization of Roads and Highways - Ludwig von Mises Institute

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management. 5 Before giving in to the “nattering nabobs of negativism,”
you owe it to yourself to at least familiarize yourself
with this literature.
5 See on this Block, “Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property: Reply
to Gordon Tullock;” idem, “Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed,
Parades, Cigarettes,” Asian Economic Review 40, no. 1 (April 1998): 15–29;
idem, “Private Roads, Competition, Automobile Insurance and Price Controls,”
Competitiveness Review 8, no. 1: 55–64; “Road Socialism,” International
Journal of Value-Based Management 9 (1996): 195–207; Walter Block and
Matthew Block, “Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property Rights,”
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines 7, no. 2/3 (June–September
1996): 351–62; Block, “Theories of Highway Safety,” Transportation Research
Record #912 (1983): 7–10; idem, “Public Goods and Externalities: The Case
of Roads,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 7, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 1–34; idem,
“Congestion and Road Pricing,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 4, no. 3 (Summer
1980): 299–330; idem, “Free Market Transportation: Denationalizing
the Roads,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 3, no. 2 (Summer, 1979): 209–38;
anthologized in Tibor R. Machan, The Libertarian Reader (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman
& Littlefield, 1982): 164–83; Michelle Cadin and Walter Block, “Privatize
the Public Highway System,” The Freeman 47, no. 2 (February 1997):
96–97; John Cobin, “Market Provisions of Highways: Lessons from Costanera
Norte,” Planning and Markets 2, no. 1 (1999); Gerald Gunderson, “Privatization
and the 19th-Century Turnpike,” Cato Journal 9, no. l (Spring/Summer
1989): 191–200; W.T. Jackman, The Development of Transportation in
Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916); Dan
Klein, “The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods? The Turnpike Companies
of Early America,” Economic Inquiry (October 1990): 788–812; Dan Klein,
John Majewski, and Christopher Baer, “Economy, Community and the Law:
The Turnpike Movement in New York, 1797–1845,” Journal of Economic History
(March 1993): 106–22; idem, “From Trunk to Branch: Toll Roads in New
York, 1800–1860,” Essays in Economic and Business History 11 (1993): 191–209;
Dan Klein and G.J. Fielding, “Private Toll Roads: Learning From the Nineteenth
Century,” Transportation Quarterly (July 1992): 321–41; idem, “How to
Franchise Highways,” Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (May 1993):
113–30; idem, “High Occupancy/Toll Lanes: Phasing in Congestion Pricing
a Lane at a Time,” Policy Study 170 (November 1993); Roth (1987); Gabriel
Roth, A Self-Financing Road System (London: Institute of Economic Affairs,
1966); idem, Paying for Roads: The Economics of Traffic Congestion (Middlesex,
U.K.: Penguin, 1967; idem, The Private Provision of Public Services in Developing
Countries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987); Murray N. Rothbard,