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The Most Politicized Pencil In History

IDEAS Posted: February 26, 2016 11:00 am

“The Mongol 482 may be just a ‘middle-range, everyday’ pencil. But it’s also one of the most famous pencils in history … Because the Mongol 482 has written its autobiography” – with the “as told to” services of a libertarian economist. Thus, like so many autobiographies, this one had an agenda – and, also like so many autobiographies, it isn’t entirely accurate. (podcast with transcription)

IDEAS Published: 02.18.16

Read the story in Freakonomics Published: 02.18.16

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