- Returning Visitor?
- Log In
- Video Introduction
- Commentary
- VOICES for REASON Blog
- What Do We Stand For?
- Why Individual Rights?
- Tell a Friend
About This Page - Powered by Convio
Business & Economics: Regulation | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Op-Eds
Press Releases
Regulation Press Release Archive
Letters to the Editor
|
ArticlesClimate Vulnerability and the Indispensable Value of Industrial Capitalism (PDF), by Keith Lockitch. Published in Energy & Environment, Vol. 20, No. 5, 2009. Justice Holmes and the Empty Constitution Vindicating Capitalism: The Real History of the Standard Oil Company Why Rent Control Is Immoral “Buy American” is Un-American Health Care Is Not a Right
Capitalism: The Unknown IdealRead selected quotations on capitalism by Ayn Rand
Video & AudioThe Financial Crisis: What Happened and WhyA lecture course delivered by Yaron Brook at Objectivist Summer Conference 2009 Ayn Rand and Free MarketsAn interview with Don Watkins on Free Markets with Dr. Mike Beitler, recorded June 4, 2009.
|
Ayn Rand on Business & EconomicsThe Sanction of the Victims (video lecture) 19th-Century Capitalism (audio interview) Capitalism vs. Communism (video interview) The "Robber Barons" (audio interview) America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business (audio lecture) Egalitarianism and Inflation (audio lecture) What Is Capitalism? (audio lecture)
Web Interviews & CommentaryNewsweek has published an interview with ARC Executive Director Yaron Brook: “Who Is To Blame?”
Commentary from Other SourcesFrom time to time, ARC posts commentary from outside sources that we think may be of interest to our readers. Please note that the following items were not produced by ARC and do not necessarily reflect our views. For commentary by ARC writers, please see the Op-Eds, Articles, Press Releases and Video & Audio sections of this page. How the FDA Violates Rights and Hinders Health Property Rights and the Crisis of the Electric Grid Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America Moral Health Care vs. “Universal Health Care”
Related Items from the Ayn Rand BookstoreCapitalism: The Unknown Ideal Why Businessmen Need Philosophy Gold and Liberty The Corporation
| |||||||||||||||
“When men are caught in the trap of non-objective law, when their work, future and livelihood are at the mercy of a bureaucrat’s whim, when they have no way of knowing what unknown ‘influence’ will crack down on them for which unspecified offense, fear becomes their basic motive, if they remain in the industry at all—and compromise, conformity, staleness, dullness, the dismal grayness of the middle-of-the-road are all that can be expected of them. Independent thinking does not submit to bureaucratic edicts, originality does not follow ‘public policies,’ integrity does not petition for a license, heroism is not fostered by fear, creative genius is not summoned forth at the point of a gun. Non-objective law is the most effective weapon of human enslavement: its victims become its enforcers and enslave themselves.”—Ayn Rand, “Vast Quicksands,” The Objectivist Newsletter, July 1963, p. 25 | |||||||||||||||||
Web site design by Michael Chiavaroli & Associates. Please report technical issues to webmaster@aynrand.org.
Copyright © 1995–2009 Ayn Rand® Institute (ARI). All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited. The Ayn Rand Center is a division of the Ayn Rand Institute. ARI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions to ARI in the United States are tax-exempt to the extent provided by law. Objectivist Conferences (OCON) and the Ayn Rand Bookstore are operated by the Ayn Rand Institute. Payments made to Objectivist Conferences or to the Ayn Rand Bookstore do not qualify as tax-deductible contributions to the Ayn Rand Institute.