Leonard E. Read

Articles

08/31/2010 Articles of Interest Leonard E. Read

I am a lead pencil — the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all I do. You may wonder why I...

I Don’t Know

11/02/2011 Mises Daily Leonard E. Read

These students of liberty have not yet learned to answer honestly, “I don’t know; I never will know; no one will ever know.”

The Rap against Unearned Riches

11/10/2011 Mises Daily Leonard E. Read

Only if one understands the subjective theory of value may he proceed logically to a belief in private ownership and control of property.

Publications

Deeper Than You Think

03/11/1967 Leonard E. Read

Leonard Read implores that “Truth is not to be found in coercive arrangements.” This work spans a wide array of topics from Egoism and Altruism to comparisons of macro and micro economics, and demonstrates Leonard Read’s legendary dynamism in his

Elements of Libertarian Leadership

05/15/1962 Leonard E. Read

It is difficult to set forth the libertarian ideal, but expounding it is simple compared to living by it. Nonetheless, life lived according to right principles can never be more than sporadic except as the ideal is sought for, held up, and used as a

Seeds of Progress

03/24/1980 Leonard E. Read

The mass of citizens who haven’t the slightest idea of what makes an economy fruitful or unfruitful, perform trillions of little things that result in an abundance of goods and services beneficial to millions of others whom they have no conscious

Media

The Miraculous Market

03/26/2009 Leonard E. Read

Think of it! The finest orchestrations ever known to man, the most beautiful music any individual on earth has heard — all mine, and done for me privately when I want it, and where I want it, and for no more than the flick of a switch. Staggering

I, Pencil

04/01/2009 Leonard E. Read

The audio version of Leonard Read’s classic essay. Narrated by Floy Lilley.

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