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David Director Friedman (born 1945) is an American economist, physicist, and legal scholar. He holds degrees in chemistry and physics from Harvard and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago, but never formally studied economics or law. He was a professor of law at Santa Clara University from 2005 to 2017 and is now professor emeritus. He is known for his book The Machinery of Freedom outlining anarcho-capitalism through free-market mechanisms, and for textbooks on price theory and the economics of law.
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- Anarcho-capitalism theory
- Microeconomics textbooks
- Book The Machinery of Freedom
- Law and economics
- Historical fiction and fantasy novels
- Society for Creative Anachronism participation
- Recreationist history scholarship
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