e-market reforms, they are growing rapidly, as well.1 How does this work? Foundation for Economic Education founder Leonard E. Read explained it in his classic essay, I, Pencil, …

e of pencil lead is made up of many molecules of graphite. Graphite molecules are flat groups of carbon The layers slide against each other and allow the lead to slide off the pencil point and …

A DVD video based on “I, Pencil” is available from izzit.org, a non-profit organization that promotes education about economics, liberty, and related topics.

ision of labor might rank as the most important insight. “I, Pencil” explains we create so much more wealth as a community than we ever could alone - in fact, even the simplest

I, Pencil My Family Tree as told to Leonard Read I am a lead pencil — the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation …

I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. In fact, if you can understand me—no, that's too much to ask of anyone—if you can …

“I, Pencil” is a typical Leonard Read product: imaginative, simple yet subtle, breathing the love of freedom that imbued everything Leonard wrote or did. As in the rest of his work, he was not …