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...
War on Drugs Causes Drug Mules…
This story has all the ingredients for a great story: two young, attractive young women arrested in South America with huge quantities of cocaine in their luggage as they try to fly back to Europe’s party capital. For the tabloids, the girls’ forlorn faces gazing out makes great copy;...
George H. Smith’s new book, The System of Liberty
Very excited to have just received through the post a copy of George H. Smith’s latest book, The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press & Cato Institute, 2013) – and I’ve already started in on it! My excitement stems from knowing...