Not many short stories can claim an introduction written by Milton Friedman that mentions both Adam Smith's thoughts on the invisible hand and Friedrich Hayek's thoughts on the importance of dispersed knowledge, but Leonard E. Read's short story I, Pencil is able too claim just that. Few other authors can bring the making of a pencil and the free market together in such a basic and understandable way.
~Leave all creative energies uninhibited
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- I, Pencil
- Globe publishes BHI Op-Ed on prevailing wages
- A Crack in the Dam
- Police Details and the Road to Serfdom
- Solution Lies in the Free Market System
- Another Failed Government Stimulus Program
- Bailouts and Moral Hazard III
- Patrick Unwilling to Follow Through?
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