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January 2005 | Online Edition

Free Free Market Books Available
for Hawaii’s Classrooms

By Ken Schoolland

It’s high time that the students of Hawaii get to meet Jonathan Gullible, the young economics adventurer who has swept the world in more than thirty languages. After all, Small Business Hawaii is both birthplace and home. Free copies of the book?

This isn’t really a free lunch.

It’s an effort long supported by Small Business Hawaii to address the desperate need for economics education among the youth of Hawaii. For a limited time, SBH is offering free sets of its award winning book on free market education.

If you let us know of a classroom teacher who would like to review the book for possible classroom use, we’ll send them a complimentary copy. Teachers from any department, from any school, on any island, may request a copy. Each of the first ten teachers who decides to adopt the book for his or her classroom use, will receive a free set of books.

Any school librarian may also request a complimentary copy. This will provide easy access for students statewide who may wish to enter the “Free Market Essay Contest” that is being developed, complete with cash prizes, by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. Details of the contest will be published soon.

Students may also access the book on-line at Hawaii Reporter: http://www.hawaiireporter.com/. Do a search under “Jonathan Gullible.”

What has Jonathan been up to world wide?
Media in the Classroom, the video company that supplies John Stosselís ABC television program materials to a third of the nation’s public schools, added the first book to their promotional materials: The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey (JG).
In anticipation of nationwide distribution, SBH is about to publish a sparkling new 2005 edition. Meanwhile, JG has been making great strides abroad. James Shikwati, Director of the Inter Regional Economic Network in Nairobi, announced that this educational project of SBH has been approved by the Kenya Institute of Education as a class reader for juniors and seniors in high schools throughout Kenya.

Dean Pang, an economic consultant in Beijing has completed the translation of the Chinese edition which is to be published through the efforts of Jerome Ma and a prominent publisher in China. Dean and Jerome are both eminent free market scholars. The Liberty Institute in New Delhi is releasing a Bengali edition of the book in January as well as a new Asia English edition for the Indian school market.

Simultaneously, The Centre for Civil Society is featuring a new play based on the book, with the hope of reaching the youth throughout India. Raja M.B. Senanayake has begun to serialize JG in The Business Standard, an English newspaper in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Luxman Siriwardena is also working with Raja to prepare a Sinahala translation through the Pathfinder think tank. And Robin Sitoula, President of Youth Initiative, is preparing a Nepali translation in Kathmandu.

For more information about Jonathan Gullible, visit the official website at http://www.jonathangullible.com or contact us at schoollak001@hawaii.rr.com.

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