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David D. Friedman

American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theoristborn 1945

Wikidata names Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ronald Coase as doctoral advisors, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata4

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Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Patri Friedman

    born 1976
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Peter Leeson

    born 1979

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.