Friday, November 16, 2012

I, Pencil -- The Movie



Leonard Read’s classic essay “I, Pencil,” is about how the manufacture of a simple (yet not so simple) pencil is coordinated by the marketplace rather than by a central planner. Milton Friedman later famously adopted it for his Free to Choose series.

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  1. One of my favorite clips. I showed it each semester to my students.

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