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I, Pencil.

Who would have thought that the process of birth of a pencil would hold the secrets to A-B-Cs of economics?


Jasjeev Singh Sahni presents an infographic on Leonard E. Read’s seminal essay, I, Pencil, and why it has been immortalised as one of the best works explaining the concepts of division of labour and dispersion of knowledge.


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