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The Machinery of Freedom (full text PDF file of the third edition) The Machinery of Freedom at Friedman's personal website, including free chapters of the book "Illustrated Video Summary of The Machinery of Freedom" on YouTube "Economics of David D. Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom: Some similarities and dissimilarities to the Austrian school"
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 ]
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]
The Ethics of Liberty is a 1982 book by American philosopher and economist Murray N. Rothbard, [1] in which the author expounds a libertarian political position. [2] Rothbard's argument is based on a form of natural law ethics, [ 3 ] and makes a case for anarcho-capitalism .
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]
David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom) Friedrich Hayek (Law, Legislation and Liberty) Gene Healy; Hans Hermann Hoppe (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) Stephan Kinsella (Legal Foundations of a Free Society) Bruno Leoni (Freedom and the Law) Robert P. Murphy (Chaos Theory) Andrew Napolitano; Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and ...
Murray Rothbard, whose writings and personal influence helped create some strands of right-libertarianism, [71] wrote about the Old Right in the United States, a loose coalition of individuals formed in the 1930s to oppose the New Deal at home and military interventionism abroad, that they "did not describe or think of themselves as ...