David D. Friedman
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Oct 13, 2026
Sean ThemeaHOST
... for how you can maybe capture that same level of success.
Sean ThemeaHOST
Step one, convince David Friedman to run for president.
Sean ThemeaHOST
Step two-
Rob ChatfieldGUEST
[laughs]
Sean ThemeaHOST
I guess that was a two-step plan.
Sean ThemeaHOST
So-
Rob ChatfieldGUEST
Yeah, you know, D- David Friedman, uh, this is, I can say this, 'cause David would allow me, 'cause he says it.
Rob ChatfieldGUEST
He s- you know, all of the intellect of both of his parents.
John PapolaHOST
In fact, the reality came before the theory.
John PapolaHOST
So anarcho-capitalist libertarian David Friedman put forward that in a purely free market society, the thing people tend to hate, namely insurance companies, well, they really don't.
John PapolaHOST
We all really only hate health insurance companies by and large for reasons that are entirely the fault of the government.
John PapolaHOST
But insurance companies will be the regulatory body because they stand to lose when people screw up.
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
And, uh, so I finally started reading Rothbard and Mises and Hazlitt and, uh, Bastiat and, uh, so many others.
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
Um, David Friedman, the Tannehills- And basically, you know, uh, by, by the time I was in law school, I, I had, I had become a full-fledged Rothbardian anarchist.
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
Now, I would say that what opened my eyes to, um, the, the error of objectivism, which is the belief...
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
So they believe in individual rights and economic, free market economics, but they still thought that a state was justified and necessary, uh, albeit a minimal state.
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
But, you know, back before the internet, uh, things were a little slower moving.
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
It took me six, seven, eight years to become an anarchist.
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
But anyway, I did it because I read books like, um, David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom, um, the Tannehills', uh, The Market for Liberty, and Rothbard's, uh, For a New Liberty.
Stephan KinsellaGUEST
Um, those are the ones that really...
Bruce NielsonHOST
And I do feel that way about anarcho-capitalism.
Bruce NielsonHOST
If someone gets into it and studies, like, like, um, uh, David Friedman, like he studies it quite a bit, and his books are awesome.
Bruce NielsonHOST
You know, I, I do wish he, he wasn't ... that he understood its true status, [laughs] and I don't think he does.
Bruce NielsonHOST
But I, there's like tons of interesting things that could come out of studying a false theory like this.
Bruce NielsonHOST
I, this is assuming it even is false.
Bruce NielsonHOST
But even if it was false, you can, you can make real progress trying to mine out the true aspects of a theory.
Bruce NielsonHOST
There's nothing wrong with David Friedman studying anarcho-capitalism.
Bruce NielsonHOST
So Pascal's original wa- as long as it's something that he's having fun with.
Chris CutroneGUEST
I
Douglas LainHOST
used to have arguments with a friend of mine named David Friedman back in the day, back in the 90s when I was in my 20s.
Douglas LainHOST
We're both struggling writers and we both got published in the same little journal called the Fiction Primer.
Douglas LainHOST
And he would say to me, and I was studying philosophy at Portland State University at the time.
Bob MurphyHOST
Okay, great.
Bob MurphyHOST
It probably goes without saying, folks, but just in case it doesn't, in this context, libertarian has nothing to do with politics, right? It's not about like Rothbardian or David Friedman-esque libertarianism at all.
Bob MurphyHOST
This is – like philosophers use that term here.
Bob MurphyHOST
They don't mean anything about the political ideology.