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Leonard E. Read
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- Leonard E. Read, an activist, a fundraiser, and an administrator, is best known for originating the oldest existing free-market nonprofit in the world, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). At the time of its founding, FEE was “[t]he only organization that introduces newcomers to the idea of the free market as a moral institution, not just as a means of efficient production.” Read also was known for his writings in moral philosophy and as a gourmet chef and curling enthusiast, all of which he pursued avidly.Not surprisingly, statists disparaged him. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; Read, Leonard E. (1898–1983)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Leonard_E._Read
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