David D. Friedman

David D. Friedman fascinates me as a genuine intellectual omnivore. Trained as a physicist at Harvard before turning to economics and legal scholarship, he refused to stay in one lane. His textbook work on microeconomics and his anarcho-capitalist argument in The Machinery of Freedom mark him as a rigorous and provocative thinker. Being Milton Friedman's son could have been a crutch, but what draws me in is how he forged his own radical libertarian theory rather than living off the family name. That restless curiosity spanning physics, economics, law, and blogging is, to me, the mark of a truly independent mind.

Name (English)

David D. Friedman

Name (Japanese)

デイヴィッド・フリードマン

Reading

でいゔぃっど・ふりーどまん

Born

February 12, 1945 (age 81)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

economist / physicist / blogger / writer / university teacher

University

Harvard University

• Official sitehttps://daviddfriedman.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20D.%20Friedman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%20(%E7%B5%8C%E6%B8%88%E5%AD%A6%E8%80%85)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353915

Tags

• New York
• economist
• physicist
• blogger

Last updated

2026-06-21

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