http://www.amazon.com/Why-Businessmen-Need-Philosophy-Capitalists/dp/0451232690/ -- The intellectual tools every business person needs in the boardroom. Includes two rare essays by Ayn Rand!
With government and the media blaming big business for the world economic crisis, capitalism needs all the help it can get. It's the perfect time for this collection of essays presenting a philosophical defense of capitalism by Ayn Rand and other Objectivist intellectuals. Essential and practical, Why Businessmen Need Philosophy reveals the importance of maintaining philosophical principles in the corporate environment at all levels of business from daily operations to executive decisions, and provides the tactical and tactful rational thinking required to defend companies from ideological attacks.
Publication date: April 5, 2011. Preorder now at major booksellers!
Is she reading from something? She looks and sounds like it. Which only pushes the stereotype of a Randroid. Sad.
ppw00 2 months ago
@JulianConrad666 How can you look at humanity in such a horrid way? Have you even heard of narcisism?
MaskFaceDude 9 months ago
@PureLiberalFire
Professors are businessmen too. Their business is teaching. They provide instruction and their customers (students) give them money in return. If a professor offers good service he will attract more students, if he does a crappy job he will have fewer students. Philosophy can help him, it can also help a baker or a dentist.
hapspir 10 months ago
Drivel.
baillar100 10 months ago
For some reason Objectivists never discuss the fact that in the real world of business, you have to hire, supervise, sell to and often buy from basically stupid, irrational, crazy or dishonest people. Just look at all those two-legged hippos, sewer-living mutants and wannabe zombie-killers who shop at Wal-Mart, for example. A businessman can make a fortune by going into trade with such people, but he has to lower himself to their level so he can figure out what they want.
JulianConrad666 10 months ago
This is essential reading for so many people, because we all rely on businessmen, despite our philosophical stance.
TheGonzalezyGonzalez 11 months ago
Only philosophers and college professors really need philosophy. Businessmen are virtually 100% reactive to, and derivative of, the culture.
PureLiberalFire 11 months ago
1913 was chosen for a variety of reasons, the main one being the beginning of the income tax as most Americans know it (Federal Income Tax Law), another being the Federal Reserve Act. 1935 -- Social Security Act. Etc. Etc.
The many immoral things that came during this time-span have, synergistically, contributed to the cause-effect continuum, culminating in the FUBAR situation the U.S. faces today.
Bluntly put, things went --exponentially-- downhill after 1913.
RodCornholio 11 months ago
@STAB1L: I have my headphones on. It sounds fine to me.
Jayemel 11 months ago
why is the audio so low?
STAB1L 11 months ago