David Friedman
economist · 2 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
David Friedman (likely the anarcho-capitalist economist and son of Milton Friedman) appears in the course materials as a key theorist of decentralized, market-based systems positioned against centralized governance, particularly through cyberlibertarian arguments that equate government with tyranny. His work is cited to support the claim that decentralization can manage complexity better than centralized control—an argument that recurs in discussions of how algorithmic and distributed systems might replace or circumvent traditional institutional authority. He exemplifies the libertarian strand of cybernetic thinking that influences contemporary debates about AI governance and market-driven technological solutions.
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