Sitemap - 2023 - David Friedman’s Substack

How Politics Worked

Anyone Want Talks in April?

Home Economics

Arguments with Interesting Leftists

Two Stories

Mapping Problems

Torture

Faith vs Reason

Temperature, Income and Mortality

A View of the Religious from the Outside

Explaining Things

Economics and Evolutionary Psychology

The Economics of Vice and Virtue

Temperature, Mortality and Climate Change

Technology and Courtship

Why Do We Give Gifts?

One solution to the Gift Economy Puzzle

Gift Economies

Anarchy vs Minarchy: Two One-Sided Exchanges

Which Side Are You On?

An Invitation

Rothbard on Smith

Murray Rothbard on Me and Vice Versa

Palestine

Is There a Right of Self Determination?

George Orwell v Frank Richards

Orwell on Kipling

Primary Tactics

Pessimism

The King’s Friends

Solutions to Mortality

Playing Safe

Why Subcultures Die

Bogus Quotes

Plumbing

Post Script

Prosecutorial Discretion

Enforcing the Constitution

Games as Training

Concerning Covid

Vivek Ramaswamy

Concerning Baths and Showers

Ptolemaic Trade Policy

The Death of the Chicago Style Seminar

Explaining Climate Policy: When Costs Aren't

Factchecking Revised

Climate Policy, The Public Good Problem, and Religion

Feud Law

Checking the Fact Checkers

Adam Smith on the Ukraine War

The Option

Climate and the Media: II

Climate and the Media I

Villanelle

Critique of “Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2”

Economics in my Fiction

Little Worlds

Slandering the Past

Sustainability

How to Change the World

Who Believes in Science?

Official Truth

One of My Hobbies

Dumb Facts

Reasons to Learn

Status, Evolution and All That

My Substack

Back of the Envelope

Thoughts on Teaching: 2

Thoughts on Teaching: 1

The Abuse of Statistics

John Marshall has made his decision

Slander

Why I Believe Things

Who to Trust

Recognizing Theories

Tribal Loyalty

Not What We Intended

A Positive Account of Rights

Recipes

Fictional Saints

Libertarian Arguments for Income Redistribution

Ignorance of Politicians

Race, Gender and IQ

I Have Seen the Past — and It Works

Bad for Us, Bad for You, Bad

More on Politics

Political Thoughts

Political Time Horizons

The Oven of Akhnai

The Hockey Stick

Statistical Arguments

Notes on Gesta Gugliemi

Gesta Gugliemi: Part III

Gesta Gugliemi: Part II

Gesta Gugliemi: Part I

Assortative Mating

Post Script on Gestational Surrogacy

Odds and Ends

Initial Appropriation

Cartelising the Money Machines

Does Free Love Promote or Impede Successful Marital Search?

Postscript to “An Unrelated Puzzle”

Modern Mate Search

Why Prediction Matters

Climate Change and Food Supply

A Climate Falsehood You Can Check for Yourself

How Humans Held Back the Glaciers

What Do Believers Believe?

Death and Religion

The Tolkien Puzzle

Join my new subscriber chat

­Making Economics Fun: Part II

Making Economics Fun: Part I

Libertarian Paternalism

Beyond Rationality?

Specialization

William Nordhaus

Testing IPCC Projections Against What Happened

The Puzzle of Consciousness

DDF vs BHL

Moral Puzzles

When You Cannot Trust the Experts

A Climate Science Textbook

My Comments on Reader Comments

The Lab Leak Theory

Critique of a Version of Austrian Economics

Tribal Politics

Moral Realism

Political Turing Test II

The Political Turing Test

Land Gained and Lost

How Humans Held Back the Glaciers

Anyone in Europe Want a Talk?

Should I Shut Down this Blog?

Anyone in Europe Want a Talk?

A Refutation of Hume’s Law

Ideas For Law Schools

Advice Wanted

From Edith Efron to Peter Schwartz

Invitation to an SSC Meetup

Crazy Like a Fox

More on Education

Unschooling: 2

The 2022 World Freedom Index is Out

Unschooling: 1

The Rhythm Method and Population Growth Rates

Two Libertarian Families

The Puzzle of Hell Solved

The Connection Between Economic Efficiency and Utility

Externalities: Part II

A Postscript

Externalities Part I

Scott Alexander on the Subject of my Previous Post

Climate: Two Metapoints

Utility: Part II

Utility: Part I

Climate: The Implication of Uncertainty

Climate Change: The Problem of Sources

An Argument for Venezuelan Immigration

Ends, Means and Knowledge

Ends and Means: Part Two

Do Ends Justify Means

The Golden Enclaves

I Now Have a Substack

A Ukraine Question

Externalities, Population and Climate

Coming soon

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

The Real Problem with the Scholomance Books

My Critique of Internal Consistency in Novik's Scholomance Books

Amazon has Restored my Account

Has Someone Discovered a New Way of Censoring Books?

Amazon Has a Pirate Edition of my First Book for Sale

Amazon KDP Cancels my Account Again

Wanted: Criticism

My Next Europe Trip

Technology and the Cost of Carbon: A Second Try (revised)

A Problem with Georgism

Technology and the Cost of Carbon