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David D. Friedman

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American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist

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Microeconomics
#216
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#227
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#67
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Law
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#1148
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#501
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Jurisprudence
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#218
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#42
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International Law
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According to Wikipedia, David Director Friedman is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, author, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. 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. Described by Walter Block as a "free-market anarchist" theorist, Friedman has also authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text , Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters , Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life , and Future Imperfect .

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