1945 - Today
David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. Although he studied chemistry and physics and not law or economics, 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David D. Friedman has received more than 740,878 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). David D. Friedman is the 219th most popular economist (down from 189th in 2019), the 3,790th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,357th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Economist.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among economists, David D. Friedman ranks 219 out of 315. Before him are Stanley Fischer, Eugen Slutsky, Thomas Sowell, Martín de Azpilcueta, Roy Harrod, and Nassau William Senior. After him are Jon Elster, Benjamin Tucker, E. F. Schumacher, Henry Hazlitt, Giovanni Arrighi, and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert.
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 213
1880 - 1948
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 214
1930 - Present
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 215
1492 - 1586
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 216
1900 - 1978
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 217
1790 - 1864
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 218
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 219
1940 - Present
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 220
1854 - 1939
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 221
1911 - 1977
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 222
1894 - 1993
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 223
1937 - 2009
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 224
1646 - 1714
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 225
Among people born in 1945, David D. Friedman ranks 223. Before him are Bianca Jagger, John Leslie, Roger Spottiswoode, Anton Zeilinger, Driss Jettou, and John Banville. After him are Noel Redding, John Doman, Betty Mahmoody, Sheila, Werner Schroeter, and Linda Harrison.
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 217
1945 - 2010
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 218
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 219
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 220
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 221
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 222
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 223
1945 - 2003
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 224
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 225
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 226
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 227
1945 - 2010
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 228
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 229
Among people born in United States, David D. Friedman ranks 3,790 out of 18,182. Before him are Charlie Haden (1937), Marcus Miller (1959), Charles Bickford (1891), Richie Havens (1941), Linda Darnell (1923), and Glenn Curtiss (1878). After him are Lunalilo (1835), Ray Dolby (1933), Andrew Fire (1959), Richard Hartshorne (1899), Frank Zamboni (1901), and William Goldman (1931).
1937 - 2014
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 3,784
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 3,785
1891 - 1967
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 3,786
1941 - 2013
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 3,787
1923 - 1965
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 3,788
1878 - 1930
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 3,789
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 3,790
1835 - 1874
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 3,791
1933 - 2013
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 3,792
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 3,793
1899 - 1992
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 3,794
1901 - 1988
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 3,795
1931 - 2018
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 3,796
Among economists born in United States, David D. Friedman ranks 74. Before him are Mancur Olson (1932), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Peter Senge (1947), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), William Baumol (1922), and Thomas Sowell (1930). After him are Benjamin Tucker (1854), Henry Hazlitt (1894), George Shultz (1920), Eric Maskin (1950), Greg Mankiw (1958), and John R. Commons (1862).
1932 - 1998
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 68
1954 - Present
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 69
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 70
1928 - 1980
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 71
1922 - 2017
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 72
1930 - Present
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 73
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 74
1854 - 1939
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 75
1894 - 1993
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 76
1920 - 2021
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 77
1950 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 78
1958 - Present
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 79
1862 - 1945
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 80