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| image = David Friedman by Gage Skidmore.jpg| image_size =|birth_name=David Director Friedman194512}}| birth_place =| death_date =| death_place =| nationality = American| spouse = Elizabeth Cook| children = Patri Friedman| institution = Santa Clara University| field = Economics, law| influences = Ronald Coase, Friedrich Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, Adam Smith, Richard Timberlake, Alfred Marshall, Murray Rothbard| contributions = The Machinery of FreedomConsequentialist libertarianism| awards =| signature = repec_id = pfr16embed= yes title= Friedman’s voice description= On capitalism vs. socialism }}Official website>education=Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts) University of Chicago (M. A.>MA, PhD)|image_caption=Friedman in 2016}}{{Chicago School (economics)}}David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist.{{Third-party inline|date=January 2024}} 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.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Caplan, Bryan, Bryan Caplan, Ronald, Hamowy, Ronald Hamowy, The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, Friedman, David (1945– ),books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC, 10.4135/9781412965811.n117, 2008, SAGE Publishing, Sage; Cato Institute, Thousand Oaks, CA, 978-1412965804, 750831024, 2008009151, 194–195, Friedman, David (1945–), Described by Walter Block as a “free-market anarchist” theorist,JOURNAL, Block, Walter E., 2011, David Friedman and Libertarianism: A Critique,heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/libpa3&div=71&id=&page=, Libertarian Papers, 35, 3, 22, 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).Free Market Mojo. “An Interview with David D. Friedman” {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122043412freemarketmojo.com/?p=5539 |date=2010-11-22 }}.

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.Faculty Profile: David Friedman {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722163211law.scu.edu/faculty/profile/friedman-david/ |date=2014-07-22 }}. Santa Clara Law School He later earned a master’s (1967) and a PhD (1971) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago.WEB,www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Academic.html, My Academic Page, www.daviddfriedman.com, Despite his later career, he never took a class for credit in either economics or law.NEWS, Athiparambath, Shanu, Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller To Make Homes Affordable,marketurbanism.com/2016/02/14/economist-david-friedman-says-india-must-go-taller-to-make-homes-affordable/, 4 October 2016, Market Urbanism, 14 February 2016, He was a professor of law at Santa Clara University from 2005 to 2017,WEB,phonebook.scu.edu/?v=pid&i=462, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, University, phonebook.scu.edu, and a contributing editor for Liberty magazine. He is currently a Professor Emeritus. He is an atheist.Friedman, David D. “Atheism and Religion”, Ideas. His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and market anarchism, particularly seasteading.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}The Machinery of Freedom“>

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.BOOK, The Machinery of Freedom, 149–150, Revolution Is the Hell of It, Friedman, David D, 0-8126-9069-9, 1995, Open Court,archive.org/details/machineryoffreed00frie/page/149, He advocates a consequentialist version of anarcho-capitalism, arguing for it on a cost–benefit analysis of state versus no state.Morris, Christopher. 1992. An Essay on the Modern State. Cambridge University Press. p. 62.WEB, July 11, 2019, The World From an Anarchist-Anachronist-Economist’s View with Dr. David Friedman,thewealthstandard.com/the-world-from-an-anarchist-anachronist-economists-view-with-dr-david-friedman/, July 5, 2023, The Wealth Standard, It is contrasted with the natural-rights approach as propounded most notably by economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

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.WEB,www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Restructuring.html, Friedman, David D. “On Restructuring the SCA”, His work is compiled in the popular Cariadoc’s Miscellany.WEB,www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html, Cariadoc’s Miscellany, www.pbm.com, 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).F.L. Watkins (Fólki Þorgilsson). 2005. Herstadr-Saga: An Incomplete History of Pennsic Urbana, Illinois: Folump EnterprisesHe 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.WEB, Serval, Fred, Jack Radey part 1 – The Origins of People’s War Games,www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGuMsL2dlpA,ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/wGuMsL2dlpA, 2021-12-11, live, Homo Ludens, Fred Serval, 11 May 2020, {{cbignore}} 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.{{BSN|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ().|date=January 2024}}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.WEB,daviddfriedman.com/harald/Harald_background_info.htmlfirst=David date=2020-03-17, Salamander (2011) and its sequel Brothers (2020) are fantasy.He has spoken in favor of a non-interventionist foreign policy.WEB,www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO1xXD1Cws4,ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/TO1xXD1Cws4, 2021-12-11, live, Dr David Friedman on US Foreign Policy, Syria, Assad, Terrorism, WWII, Hitler, and much more..., VoluntaryVirtues0com, 22 September 2013, YouTube, {{cbignore}}{{Third-party inline|date=January 2024|reason=needed for context and }}

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

• BOOK, Harald, 2006, David D. Friedman, Baen Books, OL16070848W,archive.org/details/harald00frie, 9781416520566,
• Salamander, 2011
• Brothers, 2020

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• Profile on the website of Santa Clara University
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• www.booknotes.org/Watch/74535-1/David+Friedman.aspx" title="web.archive.org/web/20120128162753www.booknotes.org/Watch/74535-1/David+Friedman.aspx">Booknotes interview with Friedman on Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, October 20, 1996.
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