Jonathan Gullible 30th Anniversary Edition

By Ken Schoolland

A new edition of The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey is now available in English. The book has been expanded with two additional chapters that address more contemporary economic issues.

Matúš Pošvanc and Martin Bican have written and directed performances of the play. Says Matúš, “We have succeeded in the preparing the play and that we have started to perform it on the schools for students.”

Thirty years after Jonathan’s birth on KHVH radio and twenty years after his first publication by Sam Slom and Smart Business Hawaii, Jonathan was published in the Bahasa language in Jakarta, the 44th language.

The book has also just been released in Bucharest, the 3rd Romanian edition of the book, bringing to 64 the international publications and theatrical scripts of Jonathan Gullible.

What has been said of the book by leading economists and journalists of our time?

“It certainly presents basic economic principles in a very simple and intelligible form. It is an imaginative and very useful piece of work.”
-Milton Friedman

“I think you’re doing fabulous work in the struggle for liberty…Jonathan Gullible is a great read and makes the principles of liberty accessible, even possibly to those with alien and hostile minds.”
-Walter E. Williams

“If policymakers read–and absorbed the lessons of–this book, how much better the U.S. and the world would be. Free markets, with sensible rules of the road, are moral because they unleash the productive, creative powers of people in ways that benefit everybody. This book is particularly timely.”
-Steve Forbes

“In 44 languages and wonderfully accessible, Jonathan Gullible provides valuable lessons for us all.”
-John Stossel

“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 Frederic Bastiat and Jonathan Swift.”
–Mark Skousen

The latest edition of the book is available courtesy of Terry Easton, Liberty Publishing Company, and can be ordered at www.liberypublishingcompany.com.

A heartfelt “mahalo” to Sam Slom and Smart Business Hawaii, to Dick Rowland and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, and to Malia Zimmerman and Hawaii Reporter for all their nurturing support of Jonathan as he matured over the decades.