About the speaker:
David Friedman is an academic economist with a doctorate in physics retired from twenty-three years teaching in a law school. His first book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, was published in 1973 and is now in its third edition. It includes a description of how a society with property rights and without government might function. There as elsewhere, he offers a consequentialist defense of libertarianism.
His most recent non-fiction book is Legal Systems Very Different from Ours, covering systems from Periclean Athens through modern Amish and Romany. He is also the author of three novels, one commercially published and two self-published, and, with his wife, a self-published medieval and renaissance cookbook and a larger self-published book related to their hobby of historical recreation.
Much of his published work, including journal articles, essays, drafts of forthcoming work and the full text of several books, can be read on his web page: www.daviddfriedman.com.
Full details:
Date: Wednesday, 4th May 2022
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Location: Adam Smith Institute, 23 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3DJ
Agenda:
18.00 - Doors open + welcome drinks
18.30 - Lecture starts
19.15 - Q&A
20.00 - Event closes
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