…the brutal “free market” capitalism of people like Ayn Rand makes me ill. I think the idea of stateless free markets is a myth: the rise of capitalism coincides with the rise of the modern nation-state…
…bank based in North Carolina, required that Ayn Rand’s “free market” ideas be incorporated into the curriculum, and …and more…
…too stupid to understand the sheer brilliance of Ayn Rand. As far as they’re concerned, all government regulation is the greatest evil known to…
…the individual being their own personal god, as Ayn Rand saw it. Ayn Rand was the godmother of libertarian philosophical and political thought (though she was no fan of corporatist free market…
…Trickle Up EconomicsurbanmilwaukeeIn her novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand imagined a scenario in which the capitalists went on strike, causing a worldwide economic collapse. Assuming a market economy, Rand’s…
…who makes it a rule to read the courtroom scene in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead not once, but twice a year – can hardly be described as warm. When it came to talk of a post-election…
…time advocate of free markets — he is a devotee of Ayn Rand and her book The Fountainhead. However, his ideology has been tested repeatedly …and more…
…quite like Moelis, a devotee of arch capitalist Ayn Rand who got his start in the 1980s under Michael Milken. Since then he’s reeled in one high-profile client after…
…a Catholic, libertarian and avowed disciple of Ayn Randian individualistic capitalism’s view that market outcomes are inherently just, and Conroy, a Jesuit priest whose religion promotes social …and more…
…Rand’s tedious (yet astonishingly popular) novel “Atlas Shrugged,” a paean to the capitalist class that envisioned what would happen if the …and more…
…Rand’s tedious (yet astonishingly popular) novel “Atlas Shrugged,” a paean to the capitalist class that envisioned what would happen if the…
…off-shoots of libertarianism (such as Ayn Rand’s Objectivism) certainly oppose the concepts of charity and altruism and while libertarian Austrian economics is not overtly intended to benefit the poor or the…