Do you want to live in the world of Atlas Shrugged?
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In her masterpiece of fiction, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand emphasizes three key classical liberal themes: individualism, suspicion of centralized power, and the importance of free markets. In this video, Prof. Jennifer Burns shows how Rand's plot and characters demonstrate these themes, principally through innovative entrepreneurs who are stifled by laws and regulations instituted by their competitors. In the world of Atlas Shrugged, free markets and individual liberty have been traded away for equality and security enforced by the government. Burns ends by reviving Rand's critical question: do you want to live in this kind of world?
Jennifer Burns is an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. For more information, visit http://www.jenniferburns.org/.
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Jennifer Burns has no place to talk about this...
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No I don't. But I do.
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Um..let me think, HELL NO.
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@colddrake80 Funny, but what seemed far out in her book "Atlas" has all come to pass. The industrialists in the book went on strike, in the mountains hiding out, but now, they just hide out their capital in other nations, and outsourcing, Close enough.
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@Norie92 You`re welcome.
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@luvcheney1 Thanks, I found the PDF document supporting this on the Worldbank site.
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"David Dollar World Bank Country Director,China has been most rapidly growing economy in world over past 25 yrs. Growth has led to an extraordinary increase in real living standards and to an unprecedented decline in poverty. World Bank estimates more than 60% of population living under $1 per day poverty line at start of economic reform. That poverty headcount ratio had declined to 10% by 2004, indicating that about 500 million people have been lifted out of poverty in a generation."
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@luvcheney1 Good information on China, do you have a source for this? (Helps when I discuss free markets with people)
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I would prefer to live in a condensed version where I can find out who John Galt is within a day or two.
StateExempt 2 months ago 18
"For federal purposes, I no longer believe in the death penalty. I believe it has been issued unjustly. If you're rich, you get away with it; if you're poor and you're from the inner city, you're more likely to be prosecuted and convicted."
Yeah, he's racist.
jgarber72 2 months ago 9