David D. Friedman

David D. Friedman ( born February 12, 1945) is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He is the son of economic Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman (1912-2006) and Rose Friedman ( 1911-2009 ). His son is Patri Friedman (born 1976 ).

Life

Friedman studied chemistry and physics at Harvard University (Bachelor 1965), then physics at the University of Chicago (Master 1967, Ph. D. 1971).

His first job as a post -doctoral Friedman at Columbia University, then at the University of Pennsylvania. His first professorship led him in 1976 to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. From 1980 to 1993 he was professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and from 1983 to 1986 at Tulane University. Visiting professorships and research activities led Friedman at the University of California, Irvine, Cornell University and the University of Chicago. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Law at California's Santa Clara University.

Friedman is in his demands for the withdrawal of the state from the economic order and social life well beyond the liberal theories of his father out.

Quote from Price Theory:

"All governments do can be classified in two categories: tasks one can take away from them already, and tasks, of which we hope to be able to just take them tomorrow."

He is one of the most important pioneers of anarcho capitalism, an atheist and a supporter of the crypto- currency Bitcoin.

Works

• The Machinery of Freedom (1971 ), ISBN 0812690699, German: The wheels of freedom, ISBN 3833005297
• Price Theory ( 1986)
• The economic code
• Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996 ), German: " The economic Code: How economic thinking determines our actions ", ISBN 3-8218-0810-1
• Law 's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters. Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0,691,010,161th
• Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World ( 2008)