…is an example that the novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand, one of the most powerful exponents of laissez-faire capitalism ever, called “the sanction of the victims.” Rand had keenly observed that profit…
…world that would have pleased his favorite writer, Ayn Rand—a world where winners are prized, and welfare is slashed, unlocking the animal spirits of capitalism. Above all, Ryan rose to…
…Now and WhyAtlanta Small Business Network (blog)Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957). Atlas Struggled Ayn Rand is respected for her philosophy of objectivism. Atlas Shrugged, while not a traditional business book…
…who majors in economics and finance gets a copy of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged.“ The Charles Koch Foundation also …and more…
…Heartland Institute (blog)Or as she said in Atlas Shrugged (1957), the enviers “do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not…
…Varietyusing “a Club Med brochure and ‘Atlas Shrugged’ as…manuals….” For Mack, Saipan in the boom days was a “laissez-faire Shangri-la.” Some of us who have actually actually read “Atlas Shrugged” and…
…images where the capitalist values promoted by Ayn Rand and her followers are confronted by an alternative. The possibility of the internet’s disappearance—much less capitalism’s…
…Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who had been an Ayn Rand acolyte from her early salon days. He proclaimed, “House prices have never dropped in value.” Moreover, he said that financial managers in a…
…SeekHe wrote an essay on gold and money that Ayn Rand published in her book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal in 1966. On the other hand, he came to the Fed 16 years after Nixon ended gold redeemability…
…Alan Greenspan wrote an essay that Ayn Rand published in 1966, in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal that showed he understood gold. At least then. During his tenure as Chairman of the Federal…
…outlets have compared one of Boyack’s books to Atlas Shrugged…
…most memorable book or movie: “It is a tie: ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and '1984.’ Until I read those books, I didn’t really understand what democracy and capitalism was all about. I probably should read more…