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I, Pencil: The Movie

Why it was recommended

It's really about specialization and the interdependency of everything in the economy

RecommendationCWuestefeld · Original

What it covers

A short film from the Competitive Enterprise Institute adapting Leonard Read's 1958 essay I, Pencil, showing how no one person knows how to make a pencil and how many people. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel
I, Pencil
Length
6 min 33 sec
Year
2012
Open on YouTube

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