The Machinery of Freedom

And on my Web page, I've got a list of past posts sorted by topic.

A number of my books, such as this book that we've been discussing, originated with classes I taught, that I taught a class multiple times and accumulated stuff, basically lecture notes and such, which eventually turned into a book.

I'm retired now, so I'm not doing that.

So my present plan is to use the Substack for the same purpose.

uh and the countries got richer not poorer better fed not worse than so that made me

how can people find your sub stack

uh the my my web page is daviddfriedman.com And it has a link to the substack, a link to the sorted list of past posts, and links to a large amount of my other writing, including most of my books.

You can read for free from the webpage.

It took me six, seven, eight years to become an anarchist.

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.

Um, those are the ones that really...

And, and maybe The Ethics of Liberty, but mostly For a New Liberty, uh, those are the key works, plus some others like Bruce Benson, um, The Enterprise of Law, and also even Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which at first, when I started reading it, I thought it was an argument in favor of anarchy, but, you know, at some point in the book, you realize heh, he's, he's, he's, uh, he's dismissing anarchy and, and trying to argue in favor of a minimal state or an ultra-minimal state, um, which I think is deeply flawed, as Rothbard pointed out.

[laughs] Um, this is David Friedman.

He is the author of The Machinery of Freedom.

So my co-host, Sal DiAgrest, has been trying to get me to get you on the show to talk about a book that was very influential in his life.

Now, he's currently at a convention in Europe, and again, I wanted to get you on before, [laughs] um, you know, a- anything else went wrong in, in doing this interview.

So I read The Machinery of Freedom probably 10 years ago, and before that, I'd heard a lot of people say things like, "This is the most important work in libertarianism.

You need to read this," in, in any variety of things.

And once I read it, I understood what they were talking about because Machinery of Freedom took many things much farther than they had been taken before.

I don't know that in another few centuries there are gonna be no Muslims in Spain.