Is David Friedman a follower of the Austrian School of Economics? I know his father was the founder of the Chicago School, but I also know David Fiedman is an anarcho-capitalist. Is there a branch of the Chicago School that doesn’t defend the Federal Reserve?

Plus, the monetarist school (if that’s what you’re referring to) doesn’t “defend” the Federal Reserve; Milton Friedman wanted to abolish it. He believed, at least, replacing humans with a mechanical rule to be applied annually was a step in the right direction.

I think he’s more of an eclectic. I have yet to find any conclusion of Friedman’s that I very seriously disagree with. Clayton -

Eclectic? Uhm, no. His economic methodology is definitely Chicago school / neoclassical.

Yes, DF makes arguments using neoclassical rationality, but at least he’s honest enough to take them to their logical conclusion. Think about it, most economists use praxeology (even if they don’t call it that way) for things they find obvious (e.g. why minimum wage doesn’t work, all Phd students I…

Why isn’t he an eclectic? Is that supposed to be the explanation?

Why isn’t he an eclectic? Since you made the first assertion, how 'bout you explain how he is eclectic?

Weird response. I didn’t ever try to “explain how he is eclectic”. I don’t plan to, either.

Weird response? The burden of proof is on you. You made the first assertion. Additionally, I clearly know that you “didn’t ever try” to explain how he is eclectic; that’s why I asked you to. You said he was eclectic, without ever explaining it. I said he wasn’t it, and I qualified that statement. …

I never said that he was eclectic. Are you confusing me with Clayton?

Is David Friedman an Austrian?

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Chicago School, he once replied to this issue on these forums.

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/mises-vs-cato/9637/23

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