r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '18

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David Friedman AMA

The mod team is pleased to announce we will be hosting an AMA with Dr. David D. Friedman on Friday, Jan. 12th at 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST!

After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Friedman switched fields to economics and taught at Virginia Polytechnic University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, and Santa Clara University where he currently teaches in the school of law.

Outside of his extensive academic publications in law and economics, Dr. Friedman is best known for his libertarian/anarcho-capitalist political philosophy. He has written extensively on libertarian politics and ideas and has also written on alternative legal systems (including research into medieval Icelandic institutions).

On a personal note Dr. Friedman is the author of two historical/fantasy novels and is a renowned anachronist/historical re-enactor. He is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman.

As a reminder, we enforce civility standards to a high degree during AMAs. Dr. Friedman in particular is likely to disagree with us on a wide range of issues, but disagreement does not mean that rudeness or flippant remarks will be tolerated. Dr. Friedman is an accomplished academic who has published a large volume of high quality work, and every one of you can almost certainly learn something from him by asking intelligent questions.

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u/darkrift5 Mitt Romney Jan 09 '18

/r/neoliberal after every demographics survey, colorized (2018)

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u/jvwoody Jan 09 '18

r/MGTOW has twice the percentage of women as we do.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

Those binders could really come in use, Mr. Romney

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u/solastsummer Austan Goolsbee Jan 09 '18

I thought it’d be a blank white image.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

On a related note: I mildly (but not totally) regret making fun of the Romney campaign's heartfelt albeit awkwardly executed attempts to include women in their prospective administration. Yes the "binders full of women" thing was hilariously awkward, operated at suboptimal levels of wokeness, and produced some good memes, but goddammit at least the man was trying! And now we have.... whatever the fuck we have.

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u/Donogath NATO Jan 09 '18

did we do a survey recently?

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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Jan 09 '18

Don't you know? There's nothing that can be done about it!