Early in her novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand presents us with a scene aboard a train that is entering Philadelphia. “An office building...
Among the world's great novelists, Ayn Rand stands almost alone in providing stirring portraits of entrepreneurs, industrialists, and banker
October 18, 2001 -- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on October 10 to three economists whose work might have
James Fleishman has hit the free ground running with his self-published book, Inside Story: The Wall Street Criminal Who Wasn’t. Released
Сорок лет назад на этой неделе, 16 июля 1969 года, в 9:32 утра EDT, "Аполлон-11" стартовал с космодрома Кеннеди во Флориде. Четыре с половиной...
When Objectivists speak of capitalism, we mean laissez-faire capitalism, a political system based on the individual rights to life...
More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand
If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will have two results. First, large-scale government intervention will make the crisis
We can understand why President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress do not want to call their attempts to socialize America’s economy..
Бернард Мэдофф признал себя виновным в прошлый четверг, 12 марта, в управлении масштабной схемой Понци, которая выманила у инвесторов около 65 миллиардов долларов. Он
In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using
What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they
Читатели книги Айн Рэнд "Atlas Shrugged", в которой американский бизнесмен так ярко изображен в качестве героя, могут задаться вопросом, что сказать
In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel..
In 2005, at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the stirring peroration of that year’s commencement address advised the graduating seniors to
Last year, on November 16 (the anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, ironically), Milton Friedman died at the age of ninety-four. The..
Frank Quattrone has just become the greatest businessman in three generations to escape the anti-business persecutions of twentieth-century
Robert L. Bradley Jr. was a long-time employee of Enron Corporation, the collapsed corporate giant. During the company’s last seven years he
One of my favorite photographs of Ayn Rand dates back to 1961. In it, she is the only woman at the President's Advanced Round Table of the
Just as there is much to celebrate in the life of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), so is there much to loathe in the muckrakers' treatment o
