Biography:David D. Friedman
David D. Friedman | |
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| Born | David Director Friedman February 12, 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Cook |
| 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 |
David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, author, 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 Rose and Milton Friedman. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1965, with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics.[5] He later earned a master's (1967) and a PhD (1971) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago.[6] Despite his later career, he never took a class for credit in either economics or law.[7] He was a professor of law at Santa Clara University from 2005 to 2017,[8] and a contributing editor for Liberty magazine. He is currently a Professor Emeritus. He is an atheist.[9] His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and market anarchism, particularly seasteading.[citation needed]
The Machinery of Freedom
In his book The Machinery of Freedom (1973), Friedman sketched a form of anarcho-capitalism where all goods and services including law itself can be produced by the free market. Friedman advocates an incrementalist approach to achieve anarcho-capitalism by gradual privatization of areas that government is involved in, ultimately privatizing the law itself. In the book, he states his opposition to violent anarcho-capitalist revolution.[10]
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 wargamer who taught his school friend, Jack Radey, founder of People's War Games, how to play such wargames as Tactics II.[16] Radey relates how Friedman and himself wrote to Charles S. Roberts claiming that they had found a first turn winning strategy for each of the two sides. Roberts replied that their interpretation of the rules was valid.[16]Template:BSN
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 non-interventionist foreign policy.[17][third-party source needed]
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). The Machinery of Freedom. ISBN:978-1507785607
- 2019. Legal Systems Very Different from Ours. ISBN:1793386722
Fiction
- David D. Friedman (2006). Harald. Baen Books. ISBN 9781416520566. https://archive.org/details/harald00frie.
- Salamander, 2011
- Brothers, 2020
References
- ↑ "The Machinery of Freedom". p. 124. http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf. "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'."
- ↑ Caplan, Bryan (2008). "Friedman, David (1945– )". in Hamowy, Ronald. The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 194–195. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n117. ISBN 978-1412965804. OCLC 750831024. https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC.
- ↑ Block, Walter E. (2011). "David Friedman and Libertarianism: A Critique". Libertarian Papers 35 (3): 22. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/libpa3&div=71&id=&page=.
- ↑ Free Market Mojo. "An Interview with David D. Friedman" .
- ↑ Faculty Profile: David Friedman . Santa Clara Law School
- ↑ "My Academic Page". http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Academic.html.
- ↑ Athiparambath, Shanu (14 February 2016). "Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller To Make Homes Affordable". Market Urbanism. http://marketurbanism.com/2016/02/14/economist-david-friedman-says-india-must-go-taller-to-make-homes-affordable/.
- ↑ University, Santa Clara. "Santa Clara University". http://phonebook.scu.edu/?v=pid&i=462.
- ↑ Friedman, David D. "Atheism and Religion", Ideas.
- ↑ Friedman, David D (1995). "Revolution Is the Hell of It". The Machinery of Freedom. Open Court. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8126-9069-9. https://archive.org/details/machineryoffreed00frie/page/149.
- ↑ 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". July 11, 2019. https://thewealthstandard.com/the-world-from-an-anarchist-anachronist-economists-view-with-dr-david-friedman/.
- ↑ "Friedman, David D. "On Restructuring the SCA"". http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Restructuring.html.
- ↑ "Cariadoc's Miscellany". http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html.
- ↑ F.L. Watkins (Fólki Þorgilsson). 2005. Herstadr-Saga: An Incomplete History of Pennsic Urbana, Illinois: Folump Enterprises
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Serval, Fred. "Jack Radey part 1 – The Origins of People's War Games". Fred Serval. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGuMsL2dlpA.
- ↑ VoluntaryVirtues0com (22 September 2013). "Dr David Friedman on US Foreign Policy, Syria, Assad, Terrorism, WWII, Hitler, and much more...". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO1xXD1Cws4.
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