Ep. 23:  Roderick Long interviews DAVID FRIEDMAN
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 2021-01-02

Roderick Long chats with economist and legal scholar David Friedman on free-market anarchism; the Society for Creative Anachronism; tectonic geology; the quasi-anarchic legal systems of medieval Iceland and 18th-century England; being converted to anarchism by Robert Heinlein; how getting a Ph.D. in physics led to being an economist at a law school; the joys of fomenting war and exploiting one’s students; how he repeatedly achieved promotion through violence against his predecessors; how to make medieval armor both for humans and for turnips; how innovations in fireplace design facilitated adultery; and the perils of central planning for wizards.



Background image credit (Thingvellir):  Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA:  
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roca_de_la_Ley,_Parque_Nacional_de_%C3%9Eingvellir,_Su%C3%B0urland,_Islandia,_2014-08-16,_DD_017.JPG  

Iceland video footage credits: 

a) https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/birds-flying-over-iceland-glacier-lake-at-sunset-snrq7jpxfjc1uh9s1  
b) https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/aerial-drone-shot-of-hifoss-122-meters-high-situated-in-foss-river-icelands-longest-river-view-from-the-canyon-s_mfzb7jmjnblr5xp   
c) https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/flying-through-canyon-next-to-titanic-walls-rfuaxg0eipg2l7ij  
d) https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/tourists-walk-through-the-mid-atlantic-ridge-at-thingvellir-iceland-saywpasomjlybb42o   

Soundtrack credit (Neil Cross, “Classical Tension”):  https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/classical-tension-bg6njjalvsk0wyatry.html    



YouTube says my full list of links is too long to fit in the description. So below are just the links to David Friedman’s works and sites. For the links to other items mentioned in the discussion, see: http://praxeology.net/agoric-cafe-ep23-links.htm#otherlinks

Website:  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/

Blog:  http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/david.friedman.948011

Some online writings:  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Academic.html

David Friedman’s page on Santa Clara Law Digital Commons:  https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/do/search/?q=david%20friedman&start=0&context=1823873&facet=#query-results


Books authored by David Friedman (nonfiction):

THE MACHINERY OF FREEDOM:  GUIDE TO A RADICAL CAPITALISM (3rd ed.):  https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capitalism/dp/1507785607/?tag=praxeologynet-20

LEGAL SYSTEMS VERY DIFFERENT FROM OURS:  https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Systems-Very-Different-Ours/dp/1793386722/?tag=praxeologynet-20
Alternatively, if you prefer to patronise independent booksellers, order it from Mysterious Galaxy:  https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781793386724


HIDDEN ORDER:  THE ECONOMICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE:  https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Order-Economics-Everyday-Life/dp/1708968121/?tag=praxeologynet-20

LAW’S ORDER:  WHAT ECONOMICS HAS TO DO WITH LAW AND WHY IT MATTERS:  https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Order-What-Economics-Matters/dp/0691090092/?tag=praxeologynet-20

FUTURE IMPERFECT:  TECHNOLOGY AND FREEDOM IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD:  https://www.amazon.com/Future-Imperfect-Technology-Freedom-Uncertain/dp/1107601657/?tag=praxeologynet-20

PRICE THEORY:  AN INTERMEDIATE TEXT (3rd ed.):  https://www.amazon.com/Price-Theory-Intermediate-David-Friedman/dp/1072397366/?tag=praxeologynet-20


Books authored by David Friedman (fiction):  

HARALD:  https://www.amazon.com/Harald-David-D-Friedman/dp/1416520562/?tag=praxeologynet-20

SALAMANDER:  https://www.amazon.com/Salamander-David-D-Friedman/dp/1470084376/?tag=praxeologynet-20

BROTHERS:  https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-David-Friedman/dp/B084DG23W1/?tag=praxeologynet-20


Books co-authored by David Friedman and Elizabeth (Betty) Cook:

CARIADOC’S MISCELLANY:  https://www.amazon.com/Miscellany-David-Friedman/dp/1463789327/?tag=praxeologynet-20

HOW TO MILK AN ALMOND, STUFF AN EGG, AND ARMOR A TURNIP:  A THOUSAND YEARS OF RECIPES:  https://www.amazon.com/Milk-Almond-Stuff-Armor-Turnip/dp/1460924983/?tag=praxeologynet-20


Articles authored by David Friedman (only those referred to in the discussion):  

“Laissez-faire in Population:  The Least Bad Solution”:  http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn027.pdf

“A Theory of the Size and Shape of Nations”:  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Size_of_Nations/Size_of_Nations.html

“Private Creation and Enforcement of Law:  A Historical Case”:  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/149264593.pdf

“Efficient Institutions for the Private Enforcement of Law”:  https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1562&context=facpubs

“Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century”:  https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1558&context=facpubs



Links to other items mentioned in the discussion: 
http://praxeology.net/agoric-cafe-ep23-links.htm#otherlinks