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David Friedman
Personal blog · daviddfriedman.substack.comeconomicsphilosophy
David Friedman's personal blog at daviddfriedman.substack.com covers economics and philosophy. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Marriage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Ideas about a wide variety of subjects. Click to read David Friedman’s Substack, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Marriage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-31
- Externalities, Population and Climate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-06
What Hacker News says?
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/shrinking-hierarchy This is almost a direct counter to your essay, albeit written before you
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on “The turbulent AI era is here”Submitted On being brought up by libertarian economists as a story · 118 points
HN discussionAdam Smith would be considered a right wing economist today, similar to Milton Friedman, perhaps with more support for certain government functions such as education. However, even on that issue, given the wildly different level of education available today, its not easy to predict what he would think. Often quotations from him are taken wildly out of context to support a 'progressive' viewpoint. An example (From Da…
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on “The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994)”Submitted Explaining Falling Birth Rates as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSea level rise isn't a problem because the amount projected is tiny, in contrast to the rhetoric. Less than a meter by the end of the century, about half the difference between high tide and low. Land doesn't have to be fungible for decreasing available land by about twenty thousand square km and increasing available land by about ten million ( https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/land-gained-and-lost)t... be a net…
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on “On being brought up by libertarian economists”Submitted Rearing Children Who Will Like You as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHis post with more details was pretty interesting: https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/my-first-post-done-aga... Basically he doesn’t deny that there is warming, he just says we shouldn’t be so confident it’s bad in net. I don’t personally agree with that but it’s hard unscientific.
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on “On being brought up by libertarian economists”Submitted Marriage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn the comments, he expresses that he continues to disagree, and provides reasoning. https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/on-being-brought-up-by...
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on “On being brought up by libertarian economists”Submitted How to Give a Talk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gadgets I Would Like to See as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Net Land Gained and Lost Due to Climate Change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immigration: The Federal Solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marriage: An Economic Account as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The origin of the law of torture: A cautionary tale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Chicago Style Seminar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Checking the Fact Checkers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons to Learn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lab Leak Theory – A Bayesian Approach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Different Arguments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Hand Data: Experiences that changed my thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Marriage Market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confusing Income Effects and Substitution Effects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Economics in My Fiction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Critique of “Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Believes in Science? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dumb Facts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Status, Evolution and All That as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back of the Envelope as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Abuse of Statistics as a story · 1 points
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