DAVID DIRECTOR FRIEDMAN
This quotation is a use of language that is very dangerous for politicians and those who would interact with them. The first three sentences are absurd and Friedman makes that point without ever saying it in the last sentence. However, if someone had quoted the first three sentences without the fourth, one would think that Friedman was a hopelessly naïve socialist and not the anti-socialist that he was.
David Director Friedman is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom. Besides The Machinery of Freedom, he has authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008).