Shashwat Mishra introduces Ayn Rand’s massive novel promoting self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism. Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, is a novel by Russian-American philosopher Ayn Rand. It’s ...

ABSTRACT: The economy is analyzed on basis of thermodynamic principles, especially the law of maximum entropy production (LMEP). With thermodynamics self-evident, the reasoning is applied to the ...

Tibor Machan considers the continuing appeal of the moral philosophy of Ayn Rand, more than fifty years after the publication ... a renowned philosopher of aesthetics. Rand wrote several best-selling ...

A lot of CEOs have terrible taste in literature, and some of them like Ayn ... Atlas Shrugged. Eva Mendes is an admirer of Barack Obama’s, but she says she won’t date a man who isn’t a Rand ...

Yet the belief system constructed by Ayn Rand ... influential. Rand was a Russian from a prosperous family who emigrated to the United States. Through her novels (such as Atlas Shrugged) and ...

The fourth and final novel by Objectivist founder Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged is considered her ... Hayek and remains one of the most influential books in defense of the free market and libertarian ...