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In response to Rothbard's charge that Smith's The Wealth of Nations was largely plagiarized, David D. Friedman castigated Rothbard's scholarship and character, saying that he "was [either] deliberately dishonest or never really read the book he was criticizing". [97] Tony Endres called Rothbard's treatment of Smith a "travesty". [98]
Free-market roads is the idea that it is possible and desirable for a society to have entirely private roads.. Free-market roads and infrastructure are generally advocated by anarcho-capitalist works, including Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, Morris and Linda Tannehill's The Market for Liberty, David D. Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom, and David T. Beito's The Voluntary City.
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. [ 5 ] He later earned a master's (1967) and a PhD (1971) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago . [ 6 ]
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973; second edition 1978; third edition 1985) is a book by American economist and historian Murray Rothbard, in which the author promotes anarcho-capitalism.
The institute was founded in January 1977 in San Francisco, California; [1] named at the suggestion of cofounder Rothbard after Cato's Letters, a series of British essays penned in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. [8] [9] In 1981, Murray Rothbard was removed from the Cato Institute by the board. [10]
Debate between David Friedman and Tom Hayden The first event actually named Future of Freedom Conference was held at USC in April 1977. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] It is best remembered for the turbulent debate between Prof. David Friedman, son of Milton Friedman, and SDS radical activist and later California state senator Tom Hayden . [ 26 ]
Milton Friedman described Rand as "an utterly intolerant and dogmatic person who did a great deal of good". [14] One Rand biographer quoted Murray Rothbard as saying that he was "in agreement basically with all [Rand's] philosophy" and that it was Rand who had "convinced him of the theory of natural rights". [15]
Economist Alex Tabarrok argued that Somalia in its stateless period provided a "unique test of the theory of anarchy", in some aspects near of that espoused by anarcho-capitalists David D. Friedman and Murray Rothbard. [22] Nonetheless, both left-anarchists and anarcho-capitalists argue that Somalia was not an anarchist society. [160] [161]