Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by David D. Friedman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American economist David D. Friedman.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
David D. Friedman

David Director Friedman is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist, described by Walter Block as a "free-market anarchist". 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. He 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).

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Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.
Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion. — © David D. Friedman
Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.
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