Reading “I, Pencil” … at the Pencil Museum!
Leonard E. Read’s 1958 classic essay, I, Pencil, is a must read for anyone interested in how markets function. In a few pages, I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read (to give it it’s full title) demonstrates the truth of what appears to be an absolutely absurd...
Go on an IHS summer seminar – Apply NOW!
As I was completing the first year of my undergraduate studies in Economics at the University of York, I was recommended to apply for a summer seminar in the USA organised by the Institute for Humane Studies. This was my first trip to America and it utterly changed my...
Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Dickens – writer & capitalist!
Today is Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday – and his bicentenary is rightfully to be celebrated the world over. Dickens is certainly the greatest novelist of the 19th Century and perhaps of all time. His tales still enchant us and capture our imaginations. Many of them contain scenes or characters that still force...