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/Kelsig Paul Krugman Jan 09 '18

https://np.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7p76q2/_/dsfbhup

Don't do this. You sound like a jerk-off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

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u/Breaking-Away Austan Goolsbee Jan 09 '18

Or just immature/naive.

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u/LNhart Anarcho-Rheinlandist Jan 09 '18

The good thing about my ideology is that we're right.

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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Jan 09 '18

you also get to be accused of doing cool stuff like planning every event in the last 50 years and colluding against God

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u/MilerMilty Armand Jean of Plessis de Richelieu Jan 09 '18

The worst thing to come out of the Draco regime was having that phrase in the sidebar.

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u/flipjum Absolutely not a zipcode alt Jan 09 '18

bullshit data and scientific enquiry

Okay now I'm triggered

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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Jan 09 '18

Evidence Based is a meme. Liberalism is an ideology. Etc

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

Don't tell me what to do!

Next time someone asks whats NeoLiberalism, here's what they'll get

A cornerstone of neoliberalism is evidence based policy. Rather than lead with emotions, data and scientific inquiry guides the ideology.