Milton Friedman - I, Pencil
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Friedman decomposes a pencil into wood, graphite and other inputs to present his account of price coordination. Applying that argument to a particular supply chain requires identifying who can actually supply each hard-to-replace capability.
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This black center, we call it lead but it's really graphiteLiterally thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil