236. How Can This Possibly Be True?

Published: Feb. 18, 2016, 4 a.m.

b'A famous economics essay features a pencil (yes, a pencil) arguing that \\u201cnot a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me.\\u201d Is the pencil just bragging? In any case, what can the pencil teach us about our global interdependence \\u2014 and the proper role of government in the economy?'