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The Privatization of Roads and Highways by Walter Block

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The complete text of The Privatization of Roads and Highways by Walter Block is free to read here, split into 28 chapters totalling 139,321 words.

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Chapters

  1. Copyright Page76 words
  2. Foreword Abolishing Government Improves the Roads1,578 words
  3. Acknowledgments288 words
  4. Introduction625 words
  5. 1 Free-Market Transportation: Denationalizing the Roads* INTRODUCTION13,770 words
  6. 2. Congestion and Road Pricing16,206 words
  7. 3. Public Goods and Externalities: The Case of Roads18,361 words
  8. 4. Theory of Highway Safety3,423 words
  9. 5. Private Roads, Competition, Automobilite Insurance and Price Controls3,852 words
  10. 6. Road Socialism5,498 words
  11. 7. Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed Limits, Parades, Cigarettes4,528 words
  12. 8. Roads and the Immigration Issue2,567 words
  13. 9. The Motor Vehicle Bureau616 words
  14. 10. Privatize the Public Highway System1,116 words
  15. 11 Homesteading City Streets: An Exercise in Managerial Theory*7,256 words
  16. 12. Overcoming Difficulties in Road Privatization7,647 words
  17. 13. Transition to Private Roads4,130 words
  18. 14 Roads, Bridges, Sunlight, and Private Property Rights*5,947 words
  19. 15. Comment on Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property (Comment by Gordon Tullock)1,190 words
  20. 16 Roads, Bridges, Sunlight, and Private Property: Reply to Tullock*4,803 words
  21. 17. Who is Responsible for Traffic Deaths4,607 words
  22. 18. Open Letter to Mothers Against Drunk Driving2,534 words
  23. 19. Road Privatization: Rejoinder to Mohring7,304 words
  24. 20. Aiding and Abetting Road Socialism: The Case of Robert Poole and the Reason Foundation7,326 words
  25. Part V Conclusion 21 An Interview with Walter Block4,620 words
  26. Appendices APPENDIX I Annual U.S. Street & Highway Fatalities from 1957518 words
  27. Bibliography7,656 words
  28. Index1,279 words

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