David D. Friedman

David Director Friedman[note 1] is an anarcho-capitalist writer, the author of a seminal book on the subject, The Machinery of Freedom, and a professor emeritus of law[1]. Friedman is the son of Milton Friedman of Chicago School economic fame.

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“”There could be competition among different brands of law, just as there is competition among different brands of cars.[note 2]
—The Machinery of Freedom, chapter 29

Friedman is much more radical than many anarcho-capitalists, such as Murray Rothbard. Both he and the Rothbardians believe that all functions of government should be privatized and replaced by competing companies, such as private security firms, toll road operators, and arbitration courts.

However, while the Rothbardians believe that all the competing companies should enforce a single body of law that has been reached by consensus, somewhat like how things were done in the medieval Icelandic Commonwealth or in pre-Cromwellian Ireland, Friedman believes that the legislative process should also be privatized, and there would be no rules at all except cuius regio, eius religio, or its equivalent with secular law. How (or whether) democracy then sets in is another debate altogether.

Friedman also differs from Rothbardians and other natural-law anarchists and libertarians in advancing purely utilitarian arguments for the model he advocates, without reference to ethics except in the context of the operation of law.

gollark: No, the giant world-spanning superconductive cables are better.
gollark: The obvious solution to this is to run giant world-spanning superconductive cables to provide constant power.
gollark: Now, you might go "but night time".
gollark: If not nuclear, then the obvious way to provide power is to just blanket every available desert in solar panels.
gollark: Hmm. Is solar responsible for any deaths?

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Notes
  1. "Director" is his mother's maiden name, but given his politics, he could just as easily have adopted it as a political statement, after the tradition of the whacko assassin, Byron (Low Tax) LooperFile:Wikipedia's W.svg.
  2. There is: they're called "countries" and you can find over 200 unique ones.

References
  1. David D. Friedman's profile on the Santa Clara University website
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