Among the issues most commonly discussed are individuality, the rights of the individual, the limits of legitimate government, morality, history, economics, government policy, science, business, education, health care, energy, and man-made global warming evaluations. My posts are aimed at intelligent and rational individuals, whose comments are very welcome.

"No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it." Ayn Rand

"Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not." Ayn Rand

"The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice', but integrity." Ayn Rand

For "a human being, the question 'to be or not to be,' is the question 'to think or not to think.'" Ayn Rand

01 March 2010

Marsha Enright and Gen LaGreca: Can the Free Market Survive Without Rand?

Marsha Enright and Gen LaGreca have written a very good summary of how Ayn Rand completed the vision of the Founders of the United States of America by providing the moral basis of the free markets of Capitalism as the means for justice for each and every individual.  They specifically reject the claim that Capitalism should be defended primarily for what it does for poor groups or similar arguments, rather than for the freedom of thought and action which it provides to each and every individual.  I highly recommend that you read their article.

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