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Ideologies / Anarcho-Capitalist / David D. Friedman
David D. Friedman — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1945 · United States · Economist

David D. Friedman

Private law works

Even courts can be a market good.

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The economist whose consequentialist defence of market-supplied law gave anarcho-capitalism an efficiency argument distinct from Rothbard's rights-based one.

social

Liberal individualist on personal conduct.

economic

Consequentialist case that markets supply law and defence efficiently.

governance

No state needed; competing private protection and arbitration.

Notable for
  • 'The Machinery of Freedom'
  • Consequentialist anarcho-capitalism
  • Historical private-law systems
private-lawconsequentialismefficiency
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