Background
David Friedman is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman.
(A simple family man, a teller of tales, who happens to be...)
A simple family man, a teller of tales, who happens to be the most powerful general of his people, home of the cataphracts, much feared warriors. Some, like the young king of the neighbouring kingdom, James of Kaerlia, might underestimate him because he doesn't bedeck himself in the court garb to which he was entitled. No one underestimates Harald twice. A hundred years earlier, another young king, dreaming of brave deeds and rich plunder east of the mountains, brought a force from the Kingdom to take the Vales. An army three thousand strong tried to force the pass at Raven Stream. A thousand men of the Vales and their allies the Westkin held them. After three days the King's men gave up and went home. It wasn't water the ravens drank. Four times in the past twenty years, the Empire has invaded Kaerlia's land, seeking to bring it under their rule. Four times they were sent home with their tails between their legs. Now, the Empire is sending its best legions again to the north. Only by a return to the grand alliance of Kingdom, Vales and Ladies of the Order can they hope to withstand the disciplined and blooded invading army. But young James has picked a fight with the Order, picked a fight with Harald himself. Young men are not always wise, nor fond of peace. The new king wants war again. And again, the ravens will drink.
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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. He later earned a master"s (1967) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1971) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago.
He is known for his writings in market anarchist theory, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom (1973, revised 1989 and 2014). 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 lieutenant Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008). He was previously a Markle Senior Fellow at New America Foundation from 2000 to 2002.
He is currently a professor of law at Santa Clara University, and a contributing editor for Liberty magazine.
The Machinery of Freedom
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. In the book, he states his opposition to violent anarcho-capitalist revolution.
lieutenant is contrasted with the natural-rights approach as propounded most notably by economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard. 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.
His work is compiled in the popular Cariadoc"s Miscellany.
He is sometimes credited with founding the largest and longest-running Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget 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. He is a long-time science fiction fan, and has written two fantasy novels, Harald (Baen Books, 2006) and Salamander (2011).
(A simple family man, a teller of tales, who happens to be...)
His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and market anarchism, particularly seasteading. 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. 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.
He advocates a consequentialist version of anarcho-capitalism, arguing for anarchism on a cost-benefit analysis of state versus no state.
Friedman is a longtime member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, where he is known as Duke Cariadoc of the Bow.