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By: I, Pencil (Audio and HTML) | Foundation for Economic Education

I, Pencil (Audio and HTML) | Foundation for Economic Education — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:54:24 +0000

[...] Read Online HTML Version of I, Pencil [...]

By: Ich, der Bleistift «

Ich, der Bleistift « — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:34:13 +0000

[...] Gesine v. Prollius für das Forum Ordnungspolitik vor. Leonard E. Read lies in diesem kurzen Essay (engl. Original mit einem Nachwort von Milton Friedman) einen Bleistift erzählen ,wie Marktwirtschaft [...]

By: I, Health Care « Common Sense Liberty

I, Health Care « Common Sense Liberty — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:14:47 +0000

[...] his classic essay, I, Pencil, Leonard Read explains the extraordinarily complex processes that bring wood, graphite, resin, and [...]

By: The Constitution of Liberty | Foundation for Economic Education

The Constitution of Liberty | Foundation for Economic Education — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:29:13 +0000

[...] of ideas.” Hayek’s The Use of Knowledge in Society inspired Read’s famous essay I, Pencil, which remains instrumental in FEE’s efforts on behalf of [...]

By: Bruce Backman » Blog Archiv » I, Pencil…Leonard Read’s Famous Economics Essay

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:53:41 +0000

[...] This is his essay! It is not mine…but I believe it to be very important. I did not get permission to post this here so I hope they will forgive me for doing so. The book is available for free in pdf format here: http://fee.org/library/books/i-pencil-2/ [...]

By: ideal of freedom « BRIAN DRAKE FOR CONSTABLE

ideal of freedom « BRIAN DRAKE FOR CONSTABLE — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:49:45 +0000

[...] little pushes and shoves that yield no more than a false sense of something done.” – Leonard E. Read (1898 – [...]

By: AVATAR: A Violent Right-Wing Fantasy « Natural Fake

AVATAR: A Violent Right-Wing Fantasy « Natural Fake — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:02:16 +0000

[...] visual metaphor for the working of the free market and capitalism. It is the parable of the pencil come to [...]

By: Fidelis

Fidelis — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:29:07 +0000

Say, //JR…

Have you ever sent a letter, package, anything? with UPS or FEDEX ? Have you heard of these non-government entities?

Interestingly the ’state’ prohibits these private companies from delivering ‘mail’. If they allowed competition they would no longer be in business!

By: JR

JR — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:34:02 +0000

Mail delivery:
1) Will the \"market\" deliver my letters, with near-100% reliability, and at a uniform price, from my home in New England to Hawaii or Alaska or the bottom of the Grand Canyon?
2) And will I be able to predict from one week to the next what it will cost to send a mailing of 5,000 postcards to a wide variety of addresses?
3) And how exactly am I to be certain of the rules that might apply to sending small packets of merchandise from New England to Japan or Belgium?
4) And remind me – is it a Federal offense to tamper with this shipment? or shall I, in the event of a misfortune, address myself to the small-claims courts of Missouri, Dubai, or Bermuda?
5) And may I hope that my letters/postcards/shipments will be received by well-paid professionals at a centrally-located office in my own home town, or will I be required to transact business with low-wage, short-term workers in some strip mall or industrial park?

I like government enterprises and regulated monopolies. I think mail, phones, utilities and airlines worked just fine in the 1960s. They needed a little adustment and tweaking in the 1970s, that\’s all, but they got much more than that and we\’re worse off because of it.