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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal is a collection of essays, mostly by the philosopher Ayn Rand, with additional essays by her associates Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. The authors focus on the moral nature of laissez-faire capitalism and private property.
This Study Guide consists of approximately 46 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal.
The objective theory of values is the only moral theory incompatible with rule by force. Capitalism is the only system based implicitly on an objective theory of values—and the historic a-agedy is that this has never been made explicit.
Jan 1, 2015 · "Capitalism: The Unknown ideal" is a book that expands your mind and clarifies many common misunderstandings regarding capitalism. Ayn Rand speaks about the separation of state and economy and explains that man can survive only in an environment that protects knowledge and trade.
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In Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Rand and her colleagues define a new view of capitalism’s meaning, history, and philosophic basis and set out to demolish many of the myths surrounding capitalism. Does capitalism lead to depressions, monopolies, child labor or war? Why is big business so hated?
Jul 15, 1986 · In this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse.
- Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan
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In writing Atlas Shrugged (1957) — the story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world, and did — Rand had to define fully her new philosophy of reason, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism. Thereafter, and until her death in 1982, Rand amplified and explicated her “philosophy for living on earth” in a ...
