Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Friday, July 31 2009.

• As an interesting relic of the past, this outlandish piece of propaganda is worth the listener's time, even though the author's overconfident sense of her own rightness and persistence at pressing her points with little respect for opposing views can quickly become more than a little annoying. Using outdated words such as "altruists" to represent the forces of evil who would overburden the poor, beleaguered American business community, Rand "protesteth" far too much. Americans have seen many of the abuses come to pass that Rand, writing in 1946, claimed would never happen if free enterprise were just left to its own devices, so many of her arguments will be lost on a modern listener. For instance, the antitrust laws forced railroad barons to use illegal payoffs to forge ahead with expansion, and they shouldn't, therefore, be blamed the antitrust laws are the real problem. Narrator Anna Field's cold, crisp voice is actually well suited to such a heartless piece as this. Recommended. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ayn Rand: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Alan Greenspan: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The disintegration of philosophy in the nineteenth century and its collapse in the twentieth have led to a similar, though much slower and less obvious, process in the course of modern science.