David D. Friedman
Books
How to Milk an Almond, Stuff an Egg, and Armor a Turnip: A Thousand Years of Recipes with Cook. CreateSpace (2011) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text
Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World. Cambridge University Press (2008) (Paperback edition published 2011)
Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters. Princeton University Press (2000) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text
Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life. Harper Business (1996) (Translated into Chinese, German and Japanese) | Link to Library Catalog
Price Theory: An Intermediate Text. 2nd edition. South-Western Publishing Co. (1990) (Translated into Spanish, 1993)
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to Radical Capitalism. 2nd edition. Open Court (1989) (Translated into French, German, Italian and Japanese)
Price Theory: An Intermediate Text. South-Western Publishing Co. (1986) (Accompanied by Instructor's Manual (1986))
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism. Harper and Row (1973) (Republished by Arlington House in 1978)
Chapters
The Case for Privacy in Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics. Cohen and Wellman, editors. Blackwell (2005)
Economics and Evolutionary Psychology in Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory. Koppl, editor. Elsevier (2004) (Advances in Austrian Economics, v.7. An earlier version of this chapter is published in English, Catalan, and Castilian in the 4/2001 issue of the web journal InDret.) | Link to Full Text
Technology and the Case for Free Banking with Macintosh in The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues. Klein and Foldvary, editors. New York University Press (2003) | Link to Library Catalog
Privacy and Technology in The Right to Privacy. Paul, Miller, and Paul, editors. Cambridge University Press (2000) (Reprinted in 17 Social Philosophy and Policy 186-212 (Summer 2000)) | Link to Library Catalog
Anarchy and Efficient Law in For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings. Sanders and Narveson, editors. Rowman & Littlefield (1996)
Rational Criminals and Profit-Maximizing Police: Gary Becker's Contribution to the Economic Analysis of Law and Law Enforcement in The New Economics of Human Behavior. Tommasi and Ierulli, editors. Cambridge University Press (1995) | Link to Library Catalog
Should Medical Care Be a Commodity? An Economist's Perspective in Rights to Health Care. Bole and Bondeson, editors. Kluwer Academic (1991) | Link to Library Catalog
In Defense of Thomas Aquinas and the Just Price in St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Blaug, editor. E. Elgar ((1991)) (Reprinted from an article of the same title published in 12 History of Political Economy 234-242 (1980)
Comments on "Rationing Medical Care: Processes for Defining Adequacy" in The Price of Health. Agich and Begley, editors. D. Reidel Publishing Co. (1986) | Link to Library Catalog
Comments on "Rationing and Publicity" in The Price of Health. Agich and Begley, editors. D. Reidel Publishing Co. (1986) | Link to Library Catalog
The Economics of War in Blood and Iron. Pournelle, editor. Tom Doherty Associates (1984) (There Will Be War, III)
An Unnoticed Stock-Flow Error in The Wealth of Nations in Liberalism and Less Developed Countries: Essays in Memory of Bellicoth Raghunath Shenoy. Bhatt and Trivedi, editors. Gujarat University (1982)
A Libertarian Perspective on Welfare with Brennan in Income Support: Conceptual and Policy Issues. Brown, Johnson, and Vernier, editors. Rowman and Littlefield (1981) | Link to Library Catalog
Love is Not Enough in Survival of Freedom. Pournelle and Carr, editors. Fawcett Crest (1981)
Articles
Economic Aspects of Secession, 3 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 212-219 (2005) | Link to Library Catalog
From Imperial China to Cyberspace: Contracting Without the State, 1 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 349-369 (2005) | Link to Digital Commons
Does Technology Require New Law?, 25 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 71-85 (2001) | Link to Digital Commons
The Cash of the Twenty-First Century, with Macintosh, 17 Santa Clara Computer and High-Technology Law Journal 273-284 (2001) | Link to Digital Commons
Privacy and Technology, 17 Social Philosphy and Policy 186-212 (Summer 2000) (Published as a chapter by the same title in The Right to Privacy. Paul, Miller, and Paul, editors. Cambridge University Press (2000)) | Link to Library Catalog
Why Not Hang Them All: The Virtues of Inefficient Punishment, 107 Journal of Political Economy S259-S269 (1999) | Link to Library Catalog
In Defense of Private Orderings: Comments on Julie Cohen’s "Copyright and the Jurisprudence of Self-Help", 13 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1151-1172 (1998) | Link to Digital Commons
More Justice for Less Money, 39 Journal of Law and Economics 211-240 (1996) | Link to Digital Commons
A World of Strong Privacy: Promises and Perils of Encryption, 13 Social Philosophy and Policy 212-228 (Summer 1996) | Link to Library Catalog
Beyond the Tort/Crime Distinction, (Symposium: The Intersection of Tort and Criminal Law), 76 Boston University Law Review 103-112 (1996) (Response to Seipp article in same issue, p.59) | Link to Digital Commons
Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century, 2 University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 475-505 (1995) | Link to Digital Commons
A Positive Account of Property Rights, 11 Social Philosophy and Policy 1-16 (Summer 1994) | Link to Library Catalog
Standards as Intellectual Property: An Economic Approach, 19 University of Dayton Law Review 1109-1129 (1994) | Link to Digital Commons
Law as a Private Good, 10 Economics and Philosophy 319-327 (1994) | Link to Library Catalog
Rethinking Indigent Defense: Promoting Effective Representation Through Consumer Sovereignty and Freedom of Choice for All Criminal Defendants, with Schulhofer, 31 American Criminal Law Review 73-122 (1993) | Link to Digital Commons
Should the Characteristics of Victims and Criminals Count? Payne v. Tennessee and Two Views of Efficient Punishment, 34 Boston College Law Review 731-769 (1993) | Link to Digital Commons
Hanged for a Sheep--The Economics of Marginal Deterrence, with Sjostrom, 22 Journal of Legal Studies 345-366 (1993) | Link to Digital Commons
Comments on Peltzman, "The Political Economy of the Decline of American Public Education", 36 Journal of Law and Economics 371-378 (1993) | Link to Digital Commons
Comment on "An Economic Argument for Affirmative Action", 4 Rationality and Society 356-369 (1992) | Link to Library Catalog
Some Economics of Trade Secret Law, with Landes and Posner, 5 Journal of Economic Perspectives 61-72 (1991) | Link to Library Catalog
Impossibility, Subjective Probability, and Punishment for Attempts, 20 Journal of Legal Studies 179-186 (1991) | Link to Digital Commons
An Economic Analysis of Alternative Damage Rules for Breach of Contract, 32 Journal of Law and Economics 281-310 (1989) | Link to Digital Commons
An Economic Explanation of Punitive Damages, (Symposium: Punitive Damages), 40 Alabama Law Review 1125-1142 (1989) | Link to Digital Commons
Does Altruism Produce Efficient Outcomes? Marshall versus Kaldor, 17 Journal of Legal Studies 1-13 (1988) | Link to Digital Commons
Comment: Problems in the Provision of Public Good, (A Symposium Sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies), 10 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 505-520 (1987) (Comments on Tie-Ins and the Market Provision of Collective Goods, by Klein, 10 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 451-474 (1987) and Comments on Contracts and Public Goods, by Schmidtz, 10 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 475-503 (1987)) | Link to Digital Commons
Cold Houses in Warm Climates and Vice Versa: A Paradox of Rational Heating, 95 Journal of Political Economy 1089-1097 (1987) | Link to Library Catalog
Efficient Institutions for the Private Enforcement of Law, 13 Journal of Legal Studies 379-397 (1984) | Link to Digital Commons
Comment on Brody: "Redistribution Without Egalitarianism", 1 Social Philosophy and Policy 88-93 (Autumn 1983) | Link to Library Catalog
What Is 'Fair Compensation' for Death or Injury?, 2 International Review of Law and Economics 81-93 (1982) | Link to Library Catalog
What Does "Optimum Population" Mean?, 3 Research in Population Economics 273-287 (1981) | Link to Library Catalog
Reflections on Optimal Punishment, or: Should the Rich Pay Higher Fines?, 3 Research in Law and Economics 185-205 (1981)
Why There Are No Risk Preferrers, 89 Journal of Political Economy 600 (1981) | Link to Library Catalog
Many, Few, One--Social Harmony and the Shrunken Choice Set, 70 American Economic Review 225-232 (1980) | Link to Library Catalog
In Defense of Thomas Aquinas and the Just Price, 12 History of Political Economy 234-242 (1980) (Reprinted as a chapter in St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Blaug, editor. E. Elgar (1991))
In Defense of the Long-Haul/Short-Haul Discrimination, 10 Bell Journal of Economics 706-708 (1979) | Link to Full Text
Private Creation and Enforcement of Law -- A Historical Case, 8 Journal of Legal Studies 399-415 (1979) | Link to Digital Commons
A Theory of the Size and Shape of Nations, 85 Journal of Political Economy 59-77 (1977) | Link to Library Catalog
Book Reviews
Reforming Products Liability, 101 Journal of Political Economy 554-560 (1993) | Link to Library Catalog
Less Law Than Meets the Eye, (review of Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes), 90 Michigan Law Review 1444-1452 (1992) | Link to Digital Commons | Link to Library Catalog
Economic Analysis of Accident Law, 97 The Journal of Political Economy 497-501 (1989) | Link to Full Text
Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages, 43 Journal of Economic History 315-316 (1981) | Link to Full Text
Murder at the Margin, 34 Public Choice 233-236 (1979) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text
Further Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, 25 Public Choice 101-104 (1976) | Link to Full Text
Other Articles
How Will New Technologies Shape Our Future?, 16 Santa Clara Law 29 (Fall/Winter 2009) (excerpted from Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World by Friedman (2008)) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text
Contracts in Cyberspace, 6 Journal of Internet Law 12-15 (December 2002) | Link to Library Catalog
Choosing Metarules for Legal Change, 82 American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association) 285-289 (May 1992) | Link to Full Text
The World According to Coase, 38 The Law School Record 4 (Spring 1992) | Link to Library Catalog
Constitutional Interpretation: Defining Liberty Under the Constitution, (Federalist Society 1988 Northeast Regional Symposium: Liberty and Justice for All: Protecting Individual Rights Under the Constitution), 41 Rutgers Law Review 853-858 (1989) | Link to Digital Commons
Law and Economics: What and Why, 9 Journal of Economic Affairs 25-28 (February/March 1989) | Link to Full Text
Diamonds Are a Government's Best Friend: Burden-Free Taxes on Goods Valued for Their Values: Comment, 78 American Economic Review 297 (1988) | Link to Library Catalog
Revenue Sharing and Monopoly Government: A Comment, with Kurth, 37 Public Choice 365-370 (1981) | Link to Library Catalog
Models for Diffraction Scattering with Fixed Pole and Shielding Cut, 9A Il Nuovo Cimento della Società Italiana di Fisica. A. 219 (1972) (Physics)
Fixed-Branch-Point Model for Pion-Nucleon Diffraction Scattering, 63A Il Nuovo Cimento, Ser. 10 483 (1969) (Physics)
Other
A Miscellany. By Cariadoc and Elizabeth 10th edition. (2011) (Part I is published separately as How to Milk an Almond, Stuff an Egg, and Armor a Turnip: A Thousand Years of Recipes / by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook. (2011))
[Comments on several chapters] in Justice Across Generations: What Does It Mean?. Cohen, editor. American Association of Retired Persons, Public Policy Institute (1993)
Law and Economics entry in The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics. Henderson, editor. Warner Books (1993) | Link to Library Catalog
Economics of Crime entry in The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics. Henderson, editor. Warner Books (1993) | Link to Library Catalog
The Just Price entry in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Eatwell, Milgate and Newman, editors. Macmillan (1987)
Economic Analysis of Law entry in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, editors. Macmillan (1987)
Gold, Paper, or ...: Is There a Better Money?. Cato Institute (1982) (Cato Policy Analysis, no. 17)
Laissez-Faire in Population: The Least Bad Solution. Population Council (1972) (An occasional paper of the Population Council)