In a shocking work published in the USA thirty years ago, Professor Walter Block, from the standpoint of libertarian ethics and impartial logic, examines the gallery of types persecuted by society, public “scapegoats”, including: pimp, prostitute, strikebreaker, blackmailer, loan shark, slanderer , drug dealer, drug addict, speculator, intermediary, etc. The results of the analysis are striking in their audacity and paradoxicality. “Sheep in wolf's clothing” is an undoubted intellectual challenge for economists and sociologists, politicians, lawyers, and psychologists. The book is also of interest to a wide range of readers who are able to discard stereotypical perceptions and follow the movement of unbiased thought. Especially for this edition, the artist S. Yolkin created new illustrations for the book.

Walter Block claims that some of the most annoying society of people - including prostitutes, slanderers and moneylenders - are scapegoats whose social and economic value is not adequately appreciated. It amazes and enlightens! Vivid intercession often convinces and sometimes forces us to intensify our attack. In any case, the reader will undoubtedly learn something and be touched by something from this mind-enriching, provocative, and sometimes infuriating book. ROBERT NOZICK, philosopher, author of Anarchy, State and Utopia

< As I read Defending the Undefendable, I felt like I was being given the shock therapy that Ludwig von Mises used to make me a committed free-market advocate more than fifty years ago. Some will consider it too strong a medicine, but it will still be useful, even if people hate it. FRIEDRICH HAIEK, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 1974

When I first read Defending the Undefendable, I was amazed at how it skillfully combines economic reasoning and ethical principle, leading to some surprising conclusions. Moreover, I am amazed at how courageous it is to follow one's principles where they lead, and to defend them - even when the consequences are inconvenient. This book can teach more than many learned treatises on freedom. CHANDRAN KUKATAS, philosopher, author of The Liberal Archipelago

Tolerance of unpopular religious and cultural groups has always been one of the hallmarks of classical liberalism. Block develops this principle to its logical and radical corollary: tolerance of all activities that do not involve aggression. LAWRENCE WHITE, Professor of Economics, George Mason University