Power of the Market - The Pencil

Why it was recommended

There's not a single person in the world who could make this pencil.

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What it covers

A three-minute excerpt from Milton Friedman's Free to Choose in which he uses a pencil to show that no single person knows how to make it. He argues that the free market. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

LibertyPen

Length

2 min 42 sec

Year

2008

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