Business & Economics: Markets, Industry & Commerce

Op-Eds

To Protect the Defenseless, We Must Abolish the Minimum Wage [Forbes.com]

Capitalism in No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It [Forbes.com]

I'll Buy My Own Contraception, Thanks [Townhall.com]

Why The Glass-Steagall Myth Persists [Forbes.com]

Asking Don Watkins: Can Ayn Rand's Ideas Really End Big Government? [Washington Times - Communities]

Markets, Industry & Commerce Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

CO2 Restrictions Threaten Human Life

Supreme Court Abets the FCC's War on Free Speech

Obama Evades Government's Role in the Crisis

"Earth Hour" Symbolizes the Renunciation of Industrial Civilization

Sales of "Atlas Shrugged" Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis

Markets, Industry & Commerce Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

He's No Rand Disciple

Britain Should Start "Easing" Government Stranglehold on the Economy

No Copyright Exceptions

Government Found Guilty of Assaulting the Economy

Free Market Policies Needed to Solve the Crisis

Markets, Industry & Commerce Letters Archive

 

Articles

Apple vs. GM: Ayn Rand Knew the Difference. Do You?, by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins, in The Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 2010

Climate Vulnerability and the Indispensable Value of Industrial Capitalism (PDF), by Keith Lockitch. Published in Energy & Environment, Vol. 20, No. 5, 2009.

The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History, by Yaron Brook, published in the Fall 2007 issue of The Objective Standard.

Vindicating Capitalism: The Real History of the Standard Oil Company, by Alex Epstein, published in the Summer 2008 issue of The Objective Standard.

In Moral Defense of Forestry, by Peter Schwartz.

Why Rent Control Is Immoral, By Michael S. Berliner.

“Buy American” is Un-American, By Harry Binswanger.

Health Care Is Not a Right, By Leonard Peikoff.

 

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Read selected quotations on capitalism by Ayn Rand

 

Video & Audio

Ayn Rand and Free Markets

An interview with Don Watkins on Free Markets with Dr. Mike Beitler, recorded June 4, 2009.

Liberate, Don't Stimulate, the Economy

A press release presented by Yaron Brook

 

Too Big to Bail

An op-ed by Alex Epstein

The Morality of Capitalism
By Eric Daniels (video lecture)

The "Market Failure" Fallacy
By Brian Simpson (video lecture)

Why Conservatives Are Anti-Business
By Yaron Brook (video lecture)

Antitrust Is Immoral
By Gary Hull (video lecture)

Global Capitalism: The Cure for World Oppression and Poverty
By Andrew Bernstein (video lecture)

Ayn Rand on Business & Economics

The 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 & Commentary

Newsweek has published an interview with ARC Executive Director Yaron Brook: "Who Is To Blame?"

 

Commentary from Other Sources

From 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
By Stella Daily
The Objective Standard, Fall 2008

Book review: The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want, by Joel Waldfogel
By Eric Daniels
The Objective Standard, Fall 2008

Property Rights and the Crisis of the Electric Grid
By Raymond C. Niles
The Objective Standard, Summer 2008

Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America
By Paul Hsieh
The Objective Standard, Fall 2008

Moral Health Care vs. “Universal Health Care”
By Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh
The Objective Standard, Winter 20072008

 

Related Items from the Ayn Rand Bookstore 

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
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Why Businessmen Need Philosophy
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Gold and Liberty
By Richard M. Salsman

The Corporation
By Yaron Brook

 

 

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