Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Leonard Read
    -WIKIPEDIA: I, Pencil
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Leonard Read (IMDB)
    -Foundation for Economic freedom
    -ENTRY: Read, Leonard E. (1898-1983) (Donald J. Boudreaux, Aug 15th, 2008, Encyclopedia of Libertarianism)
    -TRIBUTE SITE: LeonardRead.org
    -INDEX: Leonard E. Read (The Online Books Page)
    -INDEX: Leonard E Read (Internet Archive)
    -INDEX: Leonard E. Read (Mises institute)
    -INDEX: Leonard E. Read 1898 – 1983 (Online Library of Liberty)
    -OBIT: Leonard E. Read Dies; Free-Market Advocate (NY Times, May 16, 1983)
    -ESSAY: I, Pencil (Leonard E. Read, December 1958, Foundation for Economic Freedom: The Freeman)
    -ETEXT: I, Pencil with Intro by Milton Friedman and Afterword by Donald J. Boudreaux (OLL)
    -VIDEO: I, Pencil - Leonard E. Read | Animated version of great essay (EconClips)
    -FILM: I, Pencil: The Movie
    -ETEXT: The Essential Leonard Read (FEE)
    -ETEXT: How To Advance Liberty (Leonard E. Read)
    -ETEXT: Then Truth Will Out ( Leonard E. Read, The Freeman)
    -VIDEO: MILTON FRIEDMAN & LEONARD READ "I, PENCIL" Full Audiobook (Free to Choose Network)
    -INTERVIEW: A Rare and Insightful Interview with Leonard Read (Tibor R. Machan, April 1975, Reason)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (FEE)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (Genius.com)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (SuperSummary)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (IvyPandsa)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (Course Sidekick)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (LitBug)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (Edusson)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (Study.com)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (Fast Track Teaching)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (BooKey)
    -STUDY GUIDE: I, Pencil (SuperSummary)
    -PODCAST: How Can This Possibly Be True?: A famous economics essay features a pencil (yes, a pencil) arguing that “not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me.” Is the pencil just bragging? In any case, what can the pencil teach us about our global interdependence — and the proper role of government in the economy? (Stephen J. Dubner, 2/18/16, Freakonomics Radio)
    -PODCAST: Pencil: Is the pencil underrated? Tim Harford examines the role pencils have played in developing our world, and finds out why some writers have called them a "miracle of the free market". Do they have a point? (BBC: 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, 6/23/19)
    -VIDEO: Masterminds and Society | Leonard E Read: I, Pencil (PhilosophyToons)
    -VIDEO BOOK CLUB: Leonard E. Read - I, Pencil | Live Reading with Text (Book Club)
    -ESSAY: Leonard E. Read's Small Tent Strategy (Gary North, Mises.org)
    -ESSAY: Leonard E. Read, Crusader (Bettina Bien Greaves, Liberty Haven)
    -ESSAY: Leonard E. Read: A Portrait: The Advancement of Human Liberty Is a Learning Process (EDMUND OPITZ, 9/01/1998, FEE: The Freeman)
    -ESSAY: The Legacy of Leonard E. Read (Jacob G. Hornberger, September 1991, future of Freedom Foundation)
    -ESSAY: Leonard Read, the Founder and BuilderThe story of Leonard Read. One of the most notable social philosophers of our time. (Mary Sennholz, 5/01/96, FEE)
    -ESSAY: “I, Pencil”: Diving Into Leonard E. Read’s Stunning Masterpiece (Ariana Goforth, March 15, 2023, Stone Soup)
    -ESSAY: Leonard E. Read on Why Means Matter More Than Ends (Gary M. Galles, FEE)
    -LETTER: To Leonard Read [Letter 250] (Ayn Rand, August 29, 1946)
    -ESSAY: Leonard Read, Modern Libertarian Founding Father, Gets His Books Fully Digitized (Brian Doherty, 3.2.2015, reason)
    -ESSAY: What Leonard Read Learned from Mises and Nock about Changing the World: The power of ideas and of the Remnant (Dan Sanchez, FEE)
    -ESSAY: Nock and Leonard Read on “One Improved Unit” and the Power of Attraction (Stephan Kinsella, January 8, 2011, The Libertarian Standard)
    -ESSAY: FDR Spied on Leonard Read (Jacob G. Hornberger, April 16, 2015, FEE)
    -ESSAY: Time to Revisit the Classic 1958 Essay ‘I, Pencil’ by Leonard Read and the 2012 Movie Version (Mark J. Perry, June 08, 2016, AEIdeas)
    -ESSAY: I, Pencil Revisited (Kevin Carson, July 11th, 2023, Center for a Stateledss Society)
    -ESSAY: I, Pencil: A Brilliant Vintage Allegory of How Everything Is Connected (Maria Popova, The Marginalian)
    -ESSAY: You, Pencil (AntiCap)
    -VIDEO LECTURE: Milton Friedman - Lesson of the Pencil
    -ESSAY: Adam Smith Vs. Leonard E. Read (Bronwyn Cordiak, 12/07/15, Bear Market)
    -ESSAY: We Pencils (Medianism, 6/01/17)
    -ESSAY: When You Buy Your Coffee, Remember “I, Pencil” (Corianna Baier, Jul 23, 2019, Show Me Institute)
    -ESSAY: The Absence of A Master Mind (Paco Jariego, October 19, 2014, mind the Post)
    -ESSAY: Lesson of making a pencil applies to economic woes (Phyllis Hunsinger, November 11, 2020, The Business Times)
    -ESSAY: Humans: Why They Triumphed: How did one ape 45,000 years ago happen to turn into a planet dominator? The answer lies in an epochal collision of creativity. (Matt Ridley, May 22, 2010, Wall Street Journal)
    -ESSAY: Collective intelligence on the edge (Matt Ridley, January 16, 2011)
    -ESSAY: The BBC’s critique of ‘I, Pencil’ misses the point (Rev. Ben Johnson, Nov. 15th, 2024, Acton Transatlantic Blog)
    -ESSAY: Some criticisms of "I, Pencil" (Terence Eden)
    -ESSAY: “I, Pencil”: A Lesson in Liberty (Brody Reifenberg, Sep 24, 2017, Liberation Day)
    -ESSAY: We Are Not Pencils: We are witnessing firsthand the dangers of absolute reliance on complex, uncontrolled, globalized supply chains. (Declan Leary, Oct 20, 2021, American Conservative)
    -ESSAY: In Defense of ‘I, Pencil’ (Dominic Pino, October 20, 2021, National Review)
    -ESSAY: “I, Pencil” and the Vital Message of “I Don’t Know”: The innumerable market miracles all around us provide us with overwhelming proof of the power of liberty. (Gary M. Galles, December 20, 2018, FEE)
    -ESSAY: More on Leonard Read’s “I, Pencil” (Don Boudreaux, January 15, 2023, Cafe Hayek)
    -ESSAY: Leonard Read on Violence, Liberty, and Love (Gary Galles, 02/03/2020, Mises Institute)
    -ESSAY: The Biggest Lesson of “I, Pencil”: "Freedom taps this richest of all the world’s resources." (Gary M. Galles, December 29, 2018, FEE)
    -PODCAST: Who Was Leonard Read? (The Tuttle Twins, The Way the World Works)
    -PODCAST: The Legacy of Leonard E. Read: What impact did Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, have on the libertarian movement? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they examine the life of this libertarian luminary. ( Future of Freedom Foundation June 23, 2022)
    -PODCAST: Memorable Mentors: Leonard Read (Ron Baker and Ed Kless, Soul of Enterprise)
    -VIDEO: I, Rose (Marginal Revolution University)
    -ESSAY: The Use of Knowledge in Society (FA Hayek, 1945, AER)

What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough.
If we possess all the relevant information,
if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and
if we command complete knowledge of available means, the problem which remains is purely one of logic.
That is, the answer to the question of what is the best use of the available means is implicit in our assumptions. The conditions which the solution of this optimum problem must satisfy have been fully worked out and can be stated best in mathematical form: put at their briefest, they are that the marginal rates of substitution between any two commodities or factors must be the same in all their different uses.

This, however, is emphatically not the economic problem which society faces. And the economic calculus which we have developed to solve this logical problem, though an important step toward the solution of the economic problem of society, does not yet provide an answer to it. The reason for this is that the “data” from which the economic calculus starts are never for the whole society “given” to a single mind which could work out the implications and can never be so given.

The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess. The economic problem of society is thus not merely a problem of how to allocate “given” resources—if “given” is taken to mean given to a single mind which deliberately solves the problem set by these “data.” It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.

    -ETEXT: Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
    -ETEXT: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Onl;ine Library of Liberty)
    -ETEXT: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
    -WIKIPEDIA: The Fable of the Bees
    -ETEXT: The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits by Bernard Mandeville (Project Gutenberg)
    -REVIEW: of I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read (thomas Freese, Tom Woods’s Liberty Classroom)
    -REVIEW: of I, Pencil (Lewis Foster, The Great Recovery)
    -REVIEW: of I, Pencil (Sandaru R., Casual Eyes)
    -REVIEW: of I, Pencil: The Movie (Carl P. Close, The Beacon)
    -REVIEW: of On Thinking for Self – Leonard E. Reed (Kevin Holtsberry, Collected Miscellany)