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The Third Edition of The Machinery of Freedom is Now Available as paperback,
kindle and audiobook
The Third Edition of my Price Theory: An Intermediate Text. is available in
print and kindle


Blog Courses Books Virtual Bardic Circle


WELCOME


DAVID D. FRIEDMAN'S HOME PAGE

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This page has links to my work in a variety of areas, published and unpublished.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.

My New Substack
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 for Substack, Blog, Books, ...


My Most Recent Talk
(on consequences of climate change)


MY FOUR WORLDS

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 * My Family
 * Academic Work: Law and Economics
 * Libertarian Writing
 * Recreational Medievalism


NEWS

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The audiobook of Salamander, my second novel, is out.

I am  hosting a virtual version every Saturday  of the meetups I used to hold in
my house for SSC readers.

I now have audiobooks,  recorded by me, available from Amazon: The Machinery of
Freedom, Hidden Order, Future Imperfect, Law's Order,  Legal Systems Very
Different from Ours and Harald (my first novel).



LINKS

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My Books
My Webbed Talks and Interviews
My Courses
Recordings of Courses
Products I Would Like to See
Story Ideas
The Option: A Story
Places I Cannot Go: A Poem
Me
My Response to a Non-Libertarian faq
Living Paper: An Open Source Project to produce computer programs that teach
economic ideas.
Old Drafts
Evidence of a successful breeding program
Report from a Sample Size of One: Some Medical Observations
Miscellaneous
A Virtual Bardic Circle with some of my storytelling



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The third edition of my first book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical
Capitalism is now webbed as a pdf.   It is available on Amazon as a paperback,
kindle and audiobook. A review and followup by my favorite blogger.
The poems — in Russian


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I am  working on transforming fifteen years of blogs into one or more books. The
current draft, the first few sections of one book, is webbed for comments.



Another   recent project is a collection of short works of literature that
contain economic ideas. The draft is up for comments as a web page.

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DAVID D. FRIEDMAN


MY FIRST NOVEL

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My first novel, published by Baen, is historical fiction set in an invented
historical background (or, if you prefer, fantasy without magic). It has a web
page showing the lovely map created for me by Chris Porter. The book is
available as an eBook and in hardcopy, and I have webbed podcasts of the entire
book, read by me. There is also an audiobook available from Audible.com. Baen 
has a webbed interview with me.



An unfinished draft of a sequel.


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BOOKS

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My second novel, Salamander, this time a fantasy with magic, and its sequel,
Brothers, are up on Amazon as both print and kindle, and Salamander is available
as an audiobook. (The map of the college where parts of both books are set.)


Legal Systems Very Different from Ours , written by me but with one chapter each
contributed by Peter Leeson and David Skarbek, discusses thirteen different
legal systems, ranging from Imperial China and Periclean Athens to modern Amish
and Romani. It is available in print, as a kindle, and as an audiobook. A late
draft is webbed, including the footnotes omitted from the audio.

Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, published by
Princeton University Press, is accompanied by a book web page which contains
images of the entire book along with an extensive system of links — think of
them as virtual footnotes — to additional material. An earlier draft is also
webbed, in a somewhat more readable form but without the links. You can read
both for free. It is available on Amazon as print, kindle, and audiobook.
Someone has webbed a Ukrainian translation of the introduction.


Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, is available on Amazon as print,
kindle, and audiobook, read by me, and there are also German and Japanese
translations. The audiobook is accompanied by a pdf showing figures, which don't
work in an audiobook, and equations, which are hard to follow. There is a webbed
video of my appearance on Book Notes discussing the book. 

Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World,  has a late
draft webbed that you can read for free. It is available in print, kindle and
audiobook.


All of one earlier book of mine, Price Theory: An Intermediate Text, is also
available on the web, including the two chapters of the first edition that were
left out of the second edition. An improved version is available on Amazon both
in print and as a kindle.


The third edition of my first book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical
Capitalism, is now webbed as a pdf. It is available on Amazon in print, kindle,
and as an audiobook.  The Russian translation of the third edition is available
in print, as an ebook, kindle, or Free pdf.


QUOTE OF THE MONTH

(some of my months are very long)


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One thing that Pratchett is notable for is that he seems to have liked more
kinds of people than any other author I can think of.
(Nancy Lebovitz on DSL)











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Previous Quotes



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Ideas for research projects in economics that other people might like to do.


OLD DRAFTS

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The Market for Students
The future of stateless societies 
Market failure and arguments for and against government
Feud as Law Enforcement, Ancient and Modern or Why is There a Patent Troll
Problem and How Can it be Solved?
Why We are Getting Smarter: A Conjectural Explanation
A conjectural explanation for concealed ovulation in humans.




COURSES

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I am recently retired from teaching at Santa Clara University in the Law School.
My final semester I taught Economic Analysis of Law, and a seminar on Legal
Systems Very Different From Ours. The web pages for both courses have links to
video recordings of the classes and other relevant material. The pages for older
courses, Legal Issues of the Twenty-first century, Intellectual Property Theory,
and Analytic Methods for Lawyers, have audio recordings of the classes and
related material.
Spring quarter of 2020 I taught an adult education class at SCU on my Legal
Systems book.





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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.

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MISCELLANEOUS

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In October of 1997, I had a televised debate on encryption regulation with Ed
Meese. The transcript is now webbed.


CONTACT

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I can be reached at DDFr@DavidDFriedman.com

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