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"I, Pencil" is an essay by Leonard Read. The full title is "I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read" and it was first published in the December 1958 issue of ''The Freeman''. It was reprinted in ''The Freeman'' in May 1996 and as a pamphlet entitled "I... Pencil" in May 1998. In the reprint, Milton Friedman wrote the introduction and Donald J. Boudreaux wrote the afterword. Friedman (the 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize in economics) used the essay in his 1980 PBS television show ''Free to Choose'' and the accompanying book of the same name. In the 2008 50th Anniversary Edition, the introduction is written by Lawrence W. Reed and Friedman wrote the afterword. "I, Pencil" is written in the first person from the point of view of a pencil. The pencil details the complexity of its own creation, listing its components (cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, glue) and the numerous people involved, down to the sweeper in the factory and the lighthouse keeper guiding the shipment into port. ==External links== * I, Pencil, as originally published * (I, Pencil ), 50th Anniversary Edition * (I, Pencil Audiobook ) provided by the Foundation for Economic Education * (Excerpt of ''Free to Choose'' ) video referencing ''I, Pencil'', as told by Milton Friedman * ('When Ideas Have Sex' ) video referencing ''I, Pencil'', as told by Matt Ridley * – a similarly styled essay also published by ''The Freeman'' * (''It Takes a World: On Liberty and the Welfare State'' ) article expanding on ''I, Pencil'' to show its implications for the concept of society and the ethics of the welfare state. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I, Pencil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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