| The machinery of freedom: guide to a radical capitalism DD Friedman Open Court Publishing Company, 1989 | 1125 | 1989 |
| Law's order: What economics has to do with law and why it matters DD Friedman Princeton University Press, 2001 | 654 | 2001 |
| Some economics of trade secret law DD Friedman, WM Landes, RA Posner Journal of Economic Perspectives 5 (1), 61-72, 1991 | 537 | 1991 |
| Private creation and enforcement of law: a historical case D Friedman The Journal of Legal Studies 8 (2), 399-415, 1979 | 469 | 1979 |
| A Theory of the Size and Shape of Nations D Friedman Journal of political economy 85 (1), 59-77, 1977 | 439 | 1977 |
| Hidden order D Friedman HarperBusiness, 1997 | 197 | 1997 |
| Price theory: An intermediate text DD Friedman Online economics textbooks, 1990 | 185 | 1990 |
| Rethinking indigent defense: promoting effective representation through consumer sovereignty and freedom of choice for all criminal defendants SJ Schulhofer, DD Friedman Am. Crim. L. Rev. 31, 73, 1993 | 170 | 1993 |
| Efficient institutions for the private enforcement of law D Friedman The Journal of Legal Studies 13 (2), 379-397, 1984 | 144 | 1984 |
| What is ‘fair compensation’for death or injury? D Friedman International Review of Law and Economics 2 (1), 81-93, 1982 | 135 | 1982 |
| Hanged for a sheep: The economics of marginal deterrence D Friedman, W Sjostrom The journal of legal studies 22 (2), 345-366, 1993 | 129 | 1993 |
| Why not hang them all: The virtues of inefficient punishment D Friedman Journal of Political Economy 107 (S6), S259-S269, 1999 | 125 | 1999 |
| Making sense of English law enforcement in the eighteenth century DD Friedman U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable 2, 475, 1995 | 113 | 1995 |
| Standards as intellectual property: an economic approach D Friedman U. Dayton L. Rev. 19, 1109, 1993 | 108 | 1993 |
| A positive account of property rights D Friedman Social Philosophy and Policy 11 (2), 1-16, 1994 | 96 | 1994 |
| In Defense of Private Orderings: Comments on Julie Cohen's" Copyright and the Jurisprudence of Self-Help" D Friedman Berkeley Tech. LJ 13, 1151, 1998 | 94 | 1998 |
| The revenge of the redwoods? Reconsidering property rights and the economic allocation of natural resources DS Levy, D Friedman The University of Chicago law review 61 (2), 493-526, 1994 | 94 | 1994 |
| In defense of Thomas Aquinas and the just price DD Friedman History of Political Economy 12 (2), 234-242, 1980 | 80 | 1980 |
| Law and Economics: What and Why D Friedman Economic Affairs 9 (3), 25-28, 1989 | 70 | 1989 |
| Does technology require new law D Friedman Harv. JL & Pub. Pol'y 25, 71, 2001 | 69 | 2001 |
