The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case For Laissez-Faire Fiction

The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case For Laissez-Faire FictionBy Andrew Bernstein The Capitalist Manifesto defends capitalism as the world's most moral and practical social system. This book is written for the rational mind, whether the reader is a professional intellectual or an intelligent layman. It makes the case for individual rights and freedom in terms intelligible to all rational men. "The key to explaining capitalism's unparalleled economic success is dual: to show that it alone is the system that

despite its productive virtues

Psychology of Altruism

Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone

and provides a trenchant critique of neoconservatism from the perspective of America’s founding principles

Under what conditions

Rand identifies profound differences between Swedish and American attitudes toward inequality and success

the courts properly secured these values under the patent laws as property rights

and money-lenders throughout history have been viewed as parasites and villains

and contrasts that growth with the legacy of medieval religion and politics

Journals includes her work on a movie she planned to write about the atomic bomb project—on The Moral Basis of Individualism

the role of family in the life of an Objectivist

the date she saw the movie and a grade rating