LEGALIZE BLACKMAIL

Professor Walter Block s new book, Legal�ize Black�mail, collects a lifetime of his schol�arly arti�cles about black�mail in which he exam�ines the legal and eco�nomic under�pin�nings of black�mail, traces its his�tor�i�cal roots, and presents a lib�er�tar�ian frame�work for think�ing about black�mail and its place in the law. Along the way, he con�fronts the the�o�ries of black�mail put for�ward by many other dis�tin�guished schol�ars, includ�ing Richard Pos�ner, Robert Noz�ick, and Richard Epstein._,