To be sure, the Rand market has never been anything but robust in the years since her death in 1982. How, then, can the appetite for Rand's work have grown? Even the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (for more than two decades a member of Rand's inner circle, and the disciple who tried to carry her doctrines into the very heart of the American economic system) has been obliged to admit that he overestimated capitalism's capacity to foster its own best interests. This seems an unlikely development, for Rand's novels and tracts all assert the justice and inner moral grandeur of unregulated capitalism. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American RightĪmidst the greatest global economic crisis since the Great Depression, sales of Ayn Rand's books have reportedly tripled. Scott McLemee contemplates the apparently timeless appeal of Ayn Rand's paeans to commerce. Global capitalism may wobble, but the ideas of its original Iron Lady still sell books by the millions.
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