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Economist and physicist who pioneered consequentialist anarcho-capitalism: argues that law, courts and police can be efficiently provided by competitive free markets without relying on natural rights.
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David Friedman leans further toward federal than 96% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
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On Diplomacy, David Friedman sits close to the catalog median.
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Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just society.
Philosophy that advocates maximum individual freedom and a state reduced to essential functions, valuing private property, free markets, and personal autonomy while rejecting state coercion over life.
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
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Brazilian political communicator and activist, founder of the Ideias Radicais channel. Known for popularizing anarcho-capitalism and Austrian economics, advocating strict private property rights, free-market deregulation, and political secession.
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A small state in the northeastern United States, New Hampshire is known for its strong libertarian culture, low taxation, absence of a state income tax, and a motto that exalts liberty above all.
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A rare society without a central state, medieval Iceland was organized by local chieftains and an assembly, the Althing, settling disputes through laws and private agreements in a decentralized system close to anarchy.
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