IPI President Tom Giovanetti explains the famous 1958 policy essay "I, Pencil" by Leonard Read, and its clever illustration of the superiority of voluntary economic cooperation over top-down central planning.

IPI Policy Basics: No One Knows How to Make a Pencil (Audio: Podcast)

An audio library of basic policy topics and concepts, for those who need to get up to speed on a particular policy topic, or those who want to learn how to think about policy from a free-market, limited government viewpoint. A project of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI).

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IPI Policy Basics: No One Knows How to Make a Pencil (Audio: Podcast)

IPI Policy Basics: No One Knows How to Make a Pencil (Audio: Podcast)