Author: Ayn Rand
Narrator: Michael Edwards
Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.
Do I admire the philosophical works of Ayn Rand because I agree with her, or because they're precisely written? Both. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal is above book review. It demands a higher level of evaluations: a list of absolutes. - Every sentence that contains the word welfare also contains the wor......more
This is the cherry that tops the Ayn Rand sundae I've been consuming for the past 2 1/2 years. Capitalism really is an unknown ideal, and it's a shame that it was never given an honest chance to fully manifest. What we have now is nowhere near capitalism- we're on a downward slippery slope to social......more
Funny to read a young Alan Greenspan's arguments for eliminating the federal reserve and returning to the gold standard.......more
Ayn Rand #1 for me. I chose this book instead of Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead, because this is a subject that I'm vaguely aware of. Rand attacks every economic system other than capitalism. This is by no means an economics treatise. She acknowledges the need for a free-market(no intervention f......more
2024-05-31 Very surprised that Goodreads does not have a review by me of this book yet, since it is one of my very favorites. All the essays are highly worthwhile. All the authors very insightful. This book has the classic article by Alan Greenspan on Gold, which for much of his career at the Fed. he t......more