Schoolland is an associate professor of economics and political science at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In announcing this new award for books on economic education, Mark Skousen, FEE's president, said, "Schoolland's story is the perfect choice for the first Read Book Award. Leonard Read, FEE's founder, spent his life writing, publishing, and teaching the basics of liberty and sound economics in a way that every individual could comprehend. The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible is a simple, powerful, and amusing way to illustrate the principles of political economy. It's a combination of the satirists Frédéric Bastiat and Jonathan Swift."
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey is the story of a young man who is shipwrecked on an island called Corrumpo. Jonathan Gullible encounters the inane policies of the Council of Lords in the politically correct island of Corrumpo who impose a "tall tax," use an "applause meter" to decide how to vote, and ban dreamy "Merryberries."
The episodes are thinly veiled and exaggerated illustrations of the current world of political economy and philosophy. Published in more than 20 languages, the book is an ideal supplement to use in economics classes and is a natural for provoking debate on the major issues of the day.
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible (118 pages, ISBN 0-9623467-2-1, 2001) is published by Small Business Hawaii in Honolulu ( www.smallbusinesshawaii.org
This is the first Leonard E. Read Book Award. The Read Book Award is an annual award given to the author of a work judged by a FEE Awards Jury to be the best book in economic education published during the previous year. The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible qualified, even though it was first published in 1988, because the third revised and updated edition was published in 2001.
The recipient receives an award of $2,000 plus a 1-ounce American Gold Eagle coin minted in 2001, the year the book was published.
FEE will present the award to Ken Schoolland at the FEE National Convention May 3-5 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (For more information, go to www.feenationalconvention.org
Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) founded the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946, the world's oldest free-market educational organization. A former general manager of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, he was a tireless fighter for individual liberty and an unrelenting critic of government interventionism in the personal and economic lives of citizens. He wrote over 30 books on philosophy and economics, including Anything That's Peaceful and the classic essay, "I, Pencil." From its 6-acre headquarters in Irvington-on-Hudson, FEE publishes Ideas on Liberty, the longest-running magazine on liberty in the United States, as well as a variety of books and pamphlets, including works of the French economist Frédéric Bastiat. FEE also offers seminars for students and teachers on economics and liberty throughout the year. On January 1, 2002, it acquired Laissez Faire Books, the largest distributor of books on liberty in the world ( www.LFB.com ).
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