I have not logged on this forum in quite some time (law school), but I saw, just moments ago, on Drudge, a link regarding CEO’s defending thier success through Ayn’s work. I cannot, at this point, make any assumption as to where the link is directed because it sends the browser back to Drudge’s main page. Being that his site gets tens of thousands of hits per day, I feel this was worth posting. The article he will link to will most certainly get many, many click-throughs. As of this post, this can be found on the left-hand column, third citation down. I’ll post the link once the website is fully updated.
Probably it’s referring to this:
Probably it’s referring to this:
Yes, that link was posted after the original post in this thread. Thank-you for citing it here.
Compared to what I’d have expected to read in the NYT, that article is great. On balance, someone reading it would definitely being more motivated to check out a Rand book.
Yea, I was really impressed with the article, particularly with the NYT. It was probably written for the Greenspan book which is #1 on my to-read list this month.
I get a chuckle out of this mischaracterization present in the article:
“I thrived on Rand’s message that only quality work counted, not who you are.” - Darla Moore, vice president of the private investment firm Rainwater Inc.
Edit: I suppose the words sound different in the context of class or gender, too bad the context isn’t there.
As of the time of this post, the article on Ayn Rand is presently the “most e-mailed” on the www.nytimes.com. This is advertising that you cannot buy!
Since Greenspan’s book is going to be reviewed by many media sources, we can expect quite a few Ayn Rand mentions in the coming weeks.
From CnnMoney:
…This do-good-by-doing-well sentiment comes straight out of the playbook of his hero, Ayn Rand. But Rand was only a thinker; Greenspan, it could be claimed, was for two decades the most influential economic actor the world had seen since V.I. Lenin emerged from his railroad car in St. Petersburg…
…
…
You will not be surprised to learn that Greenspan is not much of a gossip (not for nothing did Rand call her young, woefully solemn acolyte “the Undertaker”).
The Huffington Post, in an article titled “Greenspan Shrugged” talks a lot about Rand’s influence on Greenspan. Of course, Huffington is always dismissive of Rand, so the article is in that vein.
So there you have it. According to the Randian wet dream, all regulation is a gun held to the head of Noble Businessmen by jackbooted thugs.
Even if he modified his views somewhat (at least enough to upset other Randians), he still played his part well enough to lead us to the brink of the economic ruin and pending market chaos that is the logical result of blanket deregulation.
As of the time of this post, the article on Ayn Rand is presently the “most e-mailed” on the www.nytimes.com. This is advertising that you cannot buy!
That is awesome. I can proudly say that I am one of those people who has been emailing the article. B)
There was a letter to the editor in the New York Times in response to the article on Ayn Rand. The author claims to be a fan of Ayn Rand’s works but then she seems to be chastising a segment of financial markets for not producing anything of value. Her reasoning sounds very similar to Adam Smith’s argument that usury is bad because it “produces no values”. Despite his impressive achievements, Adam Smith was very wrong on this issue and so is the author.
Her assertions are also very vague as she offers no actual examples of what is wrong and why. I wonder if this letter has been brought to Dr. Brook’s attention, given his recent article in The Objective Standard on the morality of money lending.