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...
London 2012 Olympics: driving away "normal" tourists?
With barely 50 days to go to the start of London 2012, those of us who want to see our great city prosper will find Thomas Harding’s article “Third of London hotel rooms empty for Olympics as ‘normal’ tourists stay away” (Telegraph, 05/06/12) extremely disappointing reading. Harding reports on...
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...