“The problem with the political vision is that it is a vision of the world as we would like it to be, not the world as it is.”

— David D. Friedman

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About David D. Friedman

Economist • American

David D. Friedman is an American economist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He is the son of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winners Milton and Rose Friedman. Friedman is known for his textbook...

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