Leonard Read implores that “Truth is not to be found in coercive arrangements.” This work spans a wide array of topics from Egoism and Altruism to comparisons of macro and micro economics, and demonstrates Leonard Read’s legendary dynamism in his writing of literature. “Good societies grow out of a flourishing spirit of inquiry.”
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Leonard E. Read was the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education — the first modern libertarian think tank in the United States — and was largely responsible for the revival of the liberal tradition in post–World War II America.