A

The French version of this treatise, made by Oresme himself, begins as follows:

List of Officers

WlNTONIA

LINCOLNIA

Abel, Richard, goldsmith 54

Abraham 23

Aby, Elyas de, moneyer 107

Ace’, Adam, keeper of the dies 106

Acer, John, assayer 106

Adrian, Henry, keeper of the dies 107

—John 53

Aeacus 6

Aimer, Philip, of Tours, Master-Moneyer xxii

Akaun, William de, keeper of the dies 105

Albert, Master, Master of the Mint (1279) xxxii

ELEMENTS OF LIBERTARIAN LEADERSHIP

Notes on the theory, methods,
and practice of freedom

BY LEONARD E. READ

The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.

Irvington-on-Hudson, New York1962

THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER

Leonard E. Read, author of Conscience of the Majority, Government—An Ideal Concept, Miracle of the Market, Students of Liberty, Why Not Try Freedom?, and other books and articles, is President of the Foundation for Economic Education, organized in 1946.

The Foundation is an educational champion of private ownership, the free market, the profit and loss system, and limited government. It is nonprofit and nonpolitical. Sample copies of the Foundation’s monthly study journal, THE FREEMAN, are available on request.

PUBLISHED MARCH 1962

Copyright 1962, by Leonard E. Read. Permission to reprint granted without special request. • PRINTED IN U.S.A.

FOREWORD

IT IS DIFFICULT even to set forth the libertarian ideal, but expounding it is simple compared to living by it. Nonetheless, life lived according to right principles can never be more than sporadic except as the ideal is sought for, held up, and used as a guide.