Economics

Resource: FEE, “I, Pencil,” by Leonard E. Read, Introduction by Lawrence W. Reed, Afterword by Milton Friedman,  ©2006 Foundation for Economic Education. All rights reserved.

This essay was written in 1958. As Lawrence Reed, president of FEE, in his introduction of the essay states, “It explains in plain language why central planning is an exercise in arrogance and futility.” Leonard Read points out that each individual is a unique creation whose freedom will draw more than a straight line. Milton Friedman, (Nobel Laureate, 1976), in the afterword calls it, “imaginative, simple yet subtle, breathing the love of freedom that imbued everything Leonard wrote or did.” Take another look at the pencil in your hand and the One whose truth sets us free and placed it there.

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