Biography:David D. Friedman

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David D. Friedman
Born
David Director Friedman

(1945-02-12) February 12, 1945 (age 80)
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Cook
InstitutionSanta Clara University
FieldEconomics, law
School or
tradition		Chicago school of economics[1]
InfluencesRonald Coase, Friedrich Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, Adam Smith, Richard Timberlake, Alfred Marshall, Murray Rothbard
ContributionsThe Machinery of Freedom
Consequentialist libertarianism
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
WebsiteOfficial website

Template:Chicago School (economics) Template:Libertarianism US David Director Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/; born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, and legal scholar. 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 in 1967, and a PhD in 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.[10]

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.[11]

He advocates a consequentialist version of anarcho-capitalism, arguing for it on a cost–benefit analysis of state versus no state.[12][13] It is contrasted with the natural-rights approach as propounded most notably by economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard.

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.[14] His work is compiled in the popular Cariadoc's Miscellany.[15] 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).[16]

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.[17] 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.[17] He is a long-time science fiction fan, and has written three novels. Harald (Baen Books, 2006) is set in an invented world drawn from European history.[18] Salamander (2011) and its sequel Brothers (2020) are fantasy.

He has spoken in favor of a non-interventionist foreign policy.[19]Template:Independent source inline

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

References

  1. ↑ "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'." 
  2. ↑ 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. 
  3. ↑ 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=. 
  4. ↑ Free Market Mojo. "An Interview with David D. Friedman" .
  5. ↑ Faculty Profile: David Friedman . Santa Clara Law School
  6. ↑ "My Academic Page". http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Academic.html. 
  7. ↑ 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/. 
  8. ↑ University, Santa Clara. "Santa Clara University". http://phonebook.scu.edu/?v=pid&i=462. 
  9. ↑ Friedman, David D. "Atheism and Religion", Ideas.
  10. ↑ Wainwright, Oliver (2020-06-24). "Seasteading – a vanity project for the rich or the future of humanity?" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/24/seasteading-a-vanity-project-for-the-rich-or-the-future-of-humanity. 
  11. ↑ Friedman, David D (1995). "Revolution Is the Hell of It". The Machinery of Freedom. Open Court. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0812690699. https://archive.org/details/machineryoffreed00frie/page/149. 
  12. ↑ Morris, Christopher. 1992. An Essay on the Modern State. Cambridge University Press. p. 62.
  13. ↑ "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/. 
  14. ↑ "Friedman, David D. "On Restructuring the SCA"". http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Restructuring.html. 
  15. ↑ "Cariadoc's Miscellany". http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html. 
  16. ↑ F.L. Watkins (Fólki Þorgilsson). 2005. Herstadr-Saga: An Incomplete History of Pennsic Urbana, Illinois: Folump Enterprises
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Serval, Fred (22 March 2020). "Jack Radey part 1 – The Origins of People's War Games". Fred Serval. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGuMsL2dlpA. 
  18. ↑ Freidman, David (2020-03-17). "Harald - Background Information". http://daviddfriedman.com/harald/Harald_background_info.html. 
  19. ↑ 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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