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The David Friedman cited here is the son of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, and the father of Patri Friedman (former Google engineer, now director of the Peter
by mbrubeck 17y ago
The David Friedman cited here is the son of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, and the father of Patri Friedman (former Google engineer, now director of the Peter Thiel-funded Seasteading Institute: http://seasteading.org/ http://seasteading.org/).
His book The Machinery of Freedom has a lot more about law without government, both historically and speculatively:
http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capitalism/dp/0812690699 http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capita...
His weblog is pretty good reading for HN fans too: http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/ http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
- jacoblyles 17y agoThe Machinery of Freedom is a great book. One of the few capitalist-Anarchist tomes not in the Austrian tradition, and much more convincingly argued than most. Sadly, it is little known or read. I asked David about putting the text online since sales are so small, but the publisher still owns the rights to it. Sometimes I think, what would the world be like without the Friedmans? Definitely a grayer, less free and dynamic place.