Read believed that nothing should stand in the way of freedom’s power to change minds, including the morality and efficacy of “the free market and its miraculous performances” as the principle of social organization.
The selections in Freedom in One Lesson are intended to stimulate serious thought and further reading and, hopefully, to begin “infecting” people today with his deep-seated commitment to liberty. That was one of Leonard Read’s goals: to plant seeds of liberty, so that individuals, and thereby society, could blossom to their fullest potential.
—From the Introduction