Sitemap - 2012 - David Friedman’s Substack

The Net Value of Video Games

Christmas Books

Harsh Self-Help Advice

Is Heaven Worth the Price?

Why Are Law Schools Expensive

A Modest Request

Unsolicited Ad for Genetic Testing

Observations of Film Making

Jury Nullification and the Enforcement of the Juror's Oath

Response to Rothbard

True and Dangerous: Jury Nullification

Thoughts on the Trolley Problem

Query for Readers of The Machinery of Freedom

A Different Left Libertarianism

In Defense of Utilitarianism

Endogenous Disability

The Use of Old Exams

Googling for Usage

My Europe Trip: Update

Economics as a Unifier of Law: A True Story

Why Only New Toys?

Between Rights and Consequences

Wanted: A Robot Cameraman

Are Women Different?

WoW as Educational Software

TSA and Revealed Preference

The British Navy and the Extensive Margin

My Favorite Spam

The Conservative Mistake

Crucible of Gold: A Brief Appreciation

A Possible IP Solution

Solving the Patent Problem—and Much Else

Immigrants and Welfare

U.S. Immigration: A Brief Historical Note

Why is the Republican Party Hostile to Immigrants?

Election Dirty Tricks: Speculation and Comment

Which Way the Republicans?

Wanted: Maps + a Time Machine

How not to Teach Math—or Economics

Global Warming as a Casus Belli: An SF Idea

Election Outcomes: My Thoughts

Third Party Strategies

Redistricting: A Geek Proposal

Sandy and Global Warming

Market Failure and the Definition of Terms

California Fraud?

How Will Sandy Affect the Election?

Is it Possible to do a MMORG Right?

MMORG as the Future of Fiction?

Is World of Warcraft a Game or a Story?

Middlemen, Specialization and Birthday Parties

The Capcha Question

Towards Better Test Taking Software

Economists and Virtual Worlds

Why did Airlines Start Charging for Bags and Meals?

When Costs Aren't

Good News, Bad News

Physics, Economics, and Hurricane Arguments

Libertarian Books: Sales vs Downloads

The Half-life of Euphemisms

Macro and Micro Predators, Territorial Behavior and the Tragedy of the Commons

Doing Well by Doing Good: Motel Version

The First Experimental Science?

Wanted: Motel Occupancy Data Online

Mitt Romney, The Ideal Experiment

Quoting Adam Smith Out of Context

Are Child Sex and Child Porn Substitutes?

Back to Smart Phone Wish Lists

The Rice Christian Cycle

Consequences of the Verdict

It Only Took Forty Years

Are There Sophisticated Fake Reviews and Reviewers?

Salt, Official Truth, and the New York Times

Is TSA Vandalism Deliberate Policy?

TSA Vandalism

A Real Life Catch-22

Successful Dieting: Report from a Sample Size of One

More on Nordhaus and Global Warming

A Mass-Market Electric Car?

Confession Under Torture: The Visigothic Solution

Wanted: A Better Search String

Truth, Falsity, and Jobless Numbers

Fossil Law

The Supply Function for Marriage: A Natural Experiment

Alcohol, Warming, and Professionally Correct Speech

Is Meat Bad for You?

Nordhaus on Global Warming

Iceland, Shari'a, and the Reliability of Oral Transmission

Chavez, Assad, and the American Left

Colliding Seminars

A Better Way of Learning

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Richard Lindzen on Global Warming

Machinery of Freedom (2d edn) is in Print

Obama's "compromise" and Behavioral Economics

Obama and Catholic Voters

No Plot Survives

The Map from Salamander

Salamander and Central Planning

Salamander: Magic and Physics

More on Harald

Economics in my Fiction

Genetic Testing and Insurance: One Datum

Is Newt Gingrich Living in Sin?

Who is the Least Bad Candidate?

Gingrich: Open Marriage or Menage a Trois?

Kahneman and Caloric Leakage

The Courtesy of Princes

What if Arab Spring is followed by Arab Winter?

Mormon Candidates, Gay Marriage, and Polygamy

Politicians and Historical Ignorance

Dear Apple—Getting the Interface Wrong