This is the home page of David
Friedman. Not the
Hawaiian artist David Friedman, or the composer David Friedman, or
the fix-what's-wrong-with- government David Friedman (050) or the
fifteen year old David Friedman or the eighteen year old David
Friedman or the legendary film pornographer David Friedman or even the
economic journalist David Friedman but the
anarchist-anachronist-economist David Friedman.
Now you know why I included my middle initial.
This page has links to my work in a variety of areas, published and
unpublished. It is still under construction--and always will
be.
Click here for the online errata--errors
corrected as they come in, starting with Figure 3-1b.
All of one earlier book of mine, Price
Theory: An Intermediate Text, is
available on the web, including the two chapters of the first edition
that were
left out of the second edition.
All of my first book, The
Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical
Capitalism (2nd edn) is now webbed, both as
a pdf and as a MobiPocket e-book file.
Drafts of an articles on The Market
for Students and the future
of
stateless
societies; a few years ago I
delivered a paper
dealing with market failure and arguments for and against government at
the Mont Pelerin Meeting in Reykjavik.
Why We are Getting Smarter: A Conjectural Explanation
A conjectural explanation for concealed ovulation in humans.
Ideas
for research projects
in economics that
other people might like to do.
I
teach at
Santa Clara
University in
the Law
School and (sometimes) the Business
School. Spring
of 2009 I taught courses
on Analytic
Methods
for
Lawyers and Economic
Analysis
of
Law. This spring taught a seminar on Legal
Systems
Very
Different
from
Ours and one on Legal
Issues
of
the
21st
Century. The class pages include recording of many of the classes.
My wife says that when someone points a camera at me I look as if was facing a firing squad. I am not sure if this (from at talk I gave at Texas Christian University entitled "In Defense of Anarchy") is an improvement.
If you prefer color, this
one was taken on a visit to
Iceland some years back, and this
was taken, and webbed, by Declan
McCullagh.
In
October of 1997,
I had a televised debate on encryption regulation with Ed Meese. The
transcript
is now webbed.
I can be reached at DDFr@DavidDFriedman.com
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