366 blog reactions to http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/business/15atlas.html

had profoundly influenced the way I thought as a teenager. I read it in school at the age of 16. The Ayn Rand Institute gives free copies to high school teachers as a way to keep Rand’s philosophy top of mind. I thought it was interesting when I read this NYtimes article:

benign, living and acting beyond good and evil, a law unto itself (as Miss Rand believes it should be), and feeling any restraint on itself as, in practice, criminal, and, in morals, vicious— as Miss Rand clearly feels it to be. Of course, Miss Rand nowhere calls for a dictatorship. I take her to be calling for an aristocracy of talents. We cannot labor here why, in the modern world, the pre-conditions for aristocracy, an organic growth, no longer exist, so that impulse toward aristocracy always emerges now in the form of

s that whole ideology working out for, you know, the entire world? 2a. Salaries of Hedge Fund managers are in outer space. Paulson made about 1.7 million dollars per hour last year. Mmmm…basic fairness. Awesome. 2b. Greenspan reads Ayn Rand, then plays cut and run. The buck stops…somewhere else. 2c. Global food prices are through the roof. Enter social unrest. Food pantries are running out of food, and reporting that working families can no longer afford even basic staples. Yet again,

benign, living and acting beyond good and evil, a law unto itself (as Miss Rand believes it should be), and feeling any restraint on itself as, in practice, criminal, and, in morals, vicious— as Miss Rand clearly feels it to be. Of course, Miss Rand nowhere calls for a dictatorship. I take her to be calling for an aristocracy of talents. We cannot labor here why, in the modern world, the pre-conditions for aristocracy, an organic growth, no longer exist, so that impulse toward aristocracy always emerges now in the form of

This is a stunning presentation: The centrepiece of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged -- described by the New York Times as "one of the most influential business books ever written" and still selling at the rate of 130,000 copies a year fifty years after publication -- is the tour de force that is Galt's Speech.  It took Rand

The Government Against the Economy - George Reisman Libertarianism: A Primer - David Boaz All the Trouble in the World - PJ O'Rourke Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (the most important book you'll ever read.  Described by the New York Times as as "one of the most influential business books ever written." If Ayn Rand won't convince you, then nobody can. ) Moral Rights & Political Freedom - Tara Smith Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being

Capitalism (the institute founded by the grant). This of course, raises some issues about the academic integrity of allowing a particular book's spot on an academic syllabus to essentially be purchased. Especially when the book in question is such a well, polarizing title. (You think the movie will be required too?)

NYTIMES about "Atlas Shrugged"

is playing. I am still glad that we had someone as good as Greenspan in there for as long as we did. And I am even more happy about the fact that he is speaking out about how fiscally irresponsible some of our politicians are being. But as we celebrate Greenspan's memoirs I think it is appropriate that one of his mentors was also in news.

” - I have heard this dangerous theme a few times in the last week … I would like you to examine this thought in great depth. Here are some pointers: The Historic Significance of Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism And if you have not read it, I beseech you, go read the book. Some quotes: “If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the