David D. Friedman

David D. Friedman
Born David Director Friedman
(1945-02-12) February 12, 1945
Nationality American
Spouse(s) Elizabeth Cook
Institution Santa Clara University
Field Economics, law
School or
tradition		 Chicago School of Economics[1]
Alma mater Harvard University (BA)
University of Chicago (PhD)
Influences Ronald Coase, Friedrich Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, Adam Smith, Richard Timberlake, Alfred Marshall
Contributions The Machinery of Freedom
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist. 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] Besides The Machinery of Freedom, he has 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).[3]

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.[4] He later earned a master's (1967) and a Ph.D. (1971) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago.[5] Despite his later career, he never took a class for credit in either economics or law.[6] He is currently a professor of law at Santa Clara University,[7] and a contributing editor for Liberty magazine. He is an atheist.[8] His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and market anarchism, particularly seasteading.

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. This differs from the version proposed by Murray Rothbard, where a legal code would first be consented to by the parties involved in setting up the anarcho-capitalist society. Friedman advocates an incrementalist approach to achieve anarcho-capitalism by gradual privatization of areas that government is involved in, ultimately privatizing law and order itself. In the book, he states his opposition to violent anarcho-capitalist revolution.[9]

He advocates a consequentialist version of anarcho-capitalism, arguing for anarchism on a cost-benefit analysis of state versus no state.[10] 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.[11] His work is compiled in the popular Cariadoc's Miscellany.[12] 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.[13]

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.[14]

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Fiction

  • Harald, 2006
  • Salamander, 2011

References

  1. ↑ "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'.
  2. ↑ Caplan, Bryan (2008). "Friedman, David (1945– )". In Hamowy, Ronald. The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 194–95. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n117. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
  3. ↑ Free Market Mojo. "An Interview with David D. Friedman" Archived 2010-11-22 at the Wayback Machine..
  4. ↑ Faculty Profile: David Friedman Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.. Santa Clara Law School
  5. ↑ David Friedman C.V.
  6. ↑ Athiparambath, Shanu (14 February 2016). "Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller To Make Homes Affordable". Market Urbanism. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  7. ↑ SCU Faculty Directory
  8. ↑ Friedman, David D. "Atheism and Religion", Ideas.
  9. ↑ Friedman, David D. "Revolution Is the Hell of It". The Machinery of Freedom. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8126-9069-9.
  10. ↑ Morris, Christopher. 1992. An Essay on the Modern State. Cambridge University Press. p. 62.
  11. ↑ Friedman, David D. "On Restructuring the SCA"
  12. ↑ Cariadoc's Miscellany
  13. ↑ F.L. Watkins (Fólki Þorgilsson). 2005. HERSTAĐR-SAGA: An Incomplete History of Pennsic Urbana, Illinois: Folump Enterprises
  14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO1xXD1Cws4
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