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title: ""Here’s a New Year’s Day (well, as things turned out, a…"
date: 2021-01-02
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# "Here’s a New Year’s Day (well, as things turned out, a…

*January 2, 2021 · Facebook*

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\"Here's a New Year's Day (well, as things turned out, a day-after-New-Year's-Day) treat for you Agoric Fanatics: a fascinating interview with economist and legal scholar David Friedman\
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Topics covered include: free-market anarchism; the Society for Creative Anachronism; tectonic geology; the quasi-anarchic legal systems of medieval Iceland and 18th-century England; being converted to anarchism by Robert Heinlein; how getting a Ph.D. in physics led to being an economist at a law school; the joys of fomenting war and exploiting one's students; how he repeatedly achieved promotion through violence against his predecessors; how to make medieval armor both for humans and for turnips; how innovations in fireplace design facilitated adultery; and the perils of central planning for wizards.\"
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