#FreeBookFriday: David Friedman on Price Theory and Radical Capitalism

David D. Friedman, son of 1976 Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, describes himself as someone who teaches economics in a law school despite never having taken a course in either. Despite this, he has made important contributions to the theories of anarchy and capitalism. Furthermore, he has graciously made some of his most interesting work available online--work like...

The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism. It's a classic with over 1000 citations, and it explains why property matters and answers objections to libertarian anarchism and libertarian capitalism by explaining, for example, "Anarchy is Not Chaos."

Price Theory: An Intermediate Text. Want to learn how to really use the economic way of thinking? I'd write "David D. Friedman has no equal, at least among things you don't have to pay for," but you can also get Alchian and Allen's Universal Economics and McCloskey's The Applied Theory of Price for $0.

Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life. It's his price theory textbook, just shorter and more entertaining.