David D. Friedman
David D. Friedman | |
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PhD) | |
Spouse | Elizabeth Cook |
Children | Patri Friedman |
Academic career | |
Institution | Santa Clara University |
Field | Economics, law |
School or tradition | Chicago school of economics[1] |
Influences | Ronald Coase, Friedrich Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, Adam Smith, Richard Timberlake, Alfred Marshall, Murray Rothbard |
Contributions | The Machinery of Freedom Consequentialist libertarianism |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Website | Official website |
Part of a series on the |
Chicago school of economics |
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David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist.[third-party source needed] Although he studied chemistry and physics and not law or economics, he is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom.[2] Described by Walter Block as a "free-market anarchist" theorist,[3] Friedman has also authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008).[4]
Life and work
David Friedman is the son of economists
The Machinery of Freedom
In his book The Machinery of Freedom (1973), Friedman sketched a form of
He advocates a consequentialist version of anarcho-capitalism, arguing for it on a cost–benefit analysis of state versus no state.[11][12] It is contrasted with the natural-rights approach as propounded most notably by economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard.[citation needed]
Non-academic interests
Friedman is a longtime member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, where he is known as Duke Cariadoc of the Bow. He is known throughout the worldwide society for his articles on the philosophy of recreationism and practical historical recreations, especially those relating to the medieval Middle East.[13] His work is compiled in the popular Cariadoc's Miscellany.[14] He is sometimes credited with founding the largest and longest-running SCA event, the Pennsic War; as king of the Middle Kingdom he challenged the East Kingdom, and later as king of the East accepted the challenge and lost (to himself).[15]
He was a teenage
He is a long-time science fiction fan, and has written two fantasy novels, Harald (Baen Books, 2006) and Salamander (2011).
He has spoken in favor of a
Bibliography
Nonfiction
- 1988. Cariadoc's Miscellany.
- 1990 (2nd ed.; 1st ed.: 1986). Price Theory: An Intermediate Text. Southwestern Publishing.
- 1996. Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life. ISBN 0887308856.
- 2000. Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters. Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 0691090092
- 2005. "The Case for Privacy" in Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1405115483
- 2008. Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World. ISBN 0521877326
- 2015 (3rd ed.; 2nd ed.: 1989; 1st ed.: 1973). ISBN 978-1507785607
- 2019. Legal Systems Very Different from Ours. ISBN 1793386722
Fiction
References
- ^ "The Machinery of Freedom" (PDF). p. 124. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
Much is made in libertarian circles of the division between 'Austrian' and 'Chicago' schools of economic theory, largely by people who understand neither. I am classified as 'Chicago'.
- OCLC 750831024.
- ^ Block, Walter E. (2011). "David Friedman and Libertarianism: A Critique". Libertarian Papers. 35 (3): 22.
- ^ Free Market Mojo. "An Interview with David D. Friedman" Archived 2010-11-22 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Faculty Profile: David Friedman Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Santa Clara Law School
- ^ "My Academic Page". www.daviddfriedman.com.
- ^ Athiparambath, Shanu (14 February 2016). "Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller To Make Homes Affordable". Market Urbanism. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ University, Santa Clara. "Santa Clara University". phonebook.scu.edu.
- ^ Friedman, David D. "Atheism and Religion", Ideas.
- ISBN 0-8126-9069-9.
- ^ Morris, Christopher. 1992. An Essay on the Modern State. Cambridge University Press. p. 62.
- ^ "The World From an Anarchist-Anachronist-Economist's View with Dr. David Friedman". The Wealth Standard. July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
- ^ "Friedman, David D. "On Restructuring the SCA"".
- ^ "Cariadoc's Miscellany". www.pbm.com.
- ^ F.L. Watkins (Fólki Þorgilsson). 2005. Herstadr-Saga: An Incomplete History of Pennsic Urbana, Illinois: Folump Enterprises
- ^ a b Serval, Fred. "Jack Radey part 1 – The Origins of People's War Games". Homo Ludens. Fred Serval. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ VoluntaryVirtues0com (22 September 2013). "Dr David Friedman on US Foreign Policy, Syria, Assad, Terrorism, WWII, Hitler, and much more..." Archived from the original on 2021-12-11 – via YouTube.
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External links
- Official website
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Profile on the website of Santa Clara University
- David D. Friedman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Booknotes interview with Friedman on Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, October 20, 1996.
- David D. Friedman publications indexed by Google Scholar