All Posts Tagged With: "David Friedman"
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A student recently asked me to recommend books that will help her to better understand the economy and society. I love such questions because they give me the opportunity to recall books that were especially important in my own intellectual development, and to reflect anew on their messages. So here I list the ten non [...]
1Apr2006 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedLaw’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters by David D. Friedman
Princeton University Press • 2000 • 329 pages • $29.95 Law and economics, or the economic analysis of law, is a relatively new discipline. It was launched in the late 1950s and early 1960s and has grown in importance and in the number of its practitioners ever since. It uses key principles of economics—such as [...]
1Mar2001 | Charles W. Baird | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Non-Absurdity of Natural Law
There is an immense difference between disagreeing with a theory and considering it to be absurd. The former can be a respectful process that encourages discussion; the latter implies that anyone who holds the theory must be a fool. In vernacular language, the difference can be expressed as, “Is the other guy wrong, or is [...]
1Feb1998 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David Friedman
Harper Business • 340 pages + xi pages • 1996 • $25.00 Mr. French is a vice president in commercial real estate lending for a bank in Las Vegas, Nevada. Anyone who has met David Friedman knows he is a man looking to pick an argument. Only the naive or foolish will attempt to joust [...]
1Feb1997 | Douglas E. French | 0 comments | Continued-
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