Which American economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, wrote the introduction for the 1996 reprint of "I, Pencil"?
I, Pencil "I, Pencil" is an essay by Leonard Read. The full title is "I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read" and it was first published in the December 1958 issue of "The Freeman". It was reprinted in "The Freeman" in May 1996 and as a pamphlet entitled "I... Pencil" in May 1998. In the reprint, Milton Friedman wrote the introduction and Donald J. Boudreaux wrote the afterword. Friedman (the 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics) used the essay in his 1980 PBS television show "Free to Choose" and the accompanying book of the same name. In the 2008 50th Anniversary Edition, the introduction is written by Lawrence W. Reed and Friedman wrote the afterword.
Electric Pencil Electric Pencil, released in December 1976 by Michael Shrayer, was the first word processor for home computers.