The Privatization of Roads and Highways

The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors
Author(s)	Walter Block
Country	United States
Subject(s)	Economics
Genre(s)	Non-fiction
Publisher	Edwin Mellen Press
Publication date	2006 (1st edition)
Media type	Print
Pages	381 p. (1st edition) 475 p. (2nd edition)
ISBN	0773458417
OCLC Number	64487353

The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors is a treatise by American economist Walter Block. As the title suggests, the text makes the case for denationalizing all roadways, through a lengthy, detailed, and positive case that the privatization of roads would be socially optimal in every way. Block shows such an action would save lives, curtail pollution, save individuals money, massive amounts of time, introduce accountability, and make transportation a pleasure instead of a huge pain in the neck.

It is the first full treatise on the subject.

Links

• Resources page at Mises.org (including full text)
  • Introduction "A Future of Private Roads and Highways"
  • Excerpt "The Road to Freedom: An Interview with Walter Block"

• Articles, essays and reviews
  • "Privatize the Highways — and All Roads for That Matter" by Zachary Slayback, August 2011
  • "New Ideas for Roads" by Jeffrey A. Tucker, April 2009
  • The Freeman Review: "The Privatization of Roads and Highways" by Arthur E. Foulkes, April 2011
  • "Free Market Transportation: Denationalizing the Roads" (PDF) by Walter Block
  • "A Step Closer to Privatizing Infrastructure?" by Briggs Armstrong, June 2011
  • The Free Market: "Private Roads" by Eric Peters, February 1996
  • "Management versus Ownership: The Road-Privatization Debate" (PDF) by Laurent Carnis, Summer 2001

• Other media
  • "The Privatization of Roads and Highways" panel discussion with Walter Block, January 2009 (YouTube)
  • "Privatization of Roads" lecture by Walter Block, July 2010

• The Privatization of Roads and Highways at Wikipedia