If capitalism is self-destroying, as he says it is, if socialism leads to the servile state, and if the distributive state as a practical matter is not feasible, then we have but one choice; and that is a choice between serfdom and death.
Finally, this view, based only on the doctrines of one obscure and heterodox scholastic, was enshrined in conventional histories of economic thought, where it was seconded by the free market but fanatically anti-Catholic economist Frank Knight and his followers in the now highly influential Chicago School.
Ayn Rand's books sell between eight hundred thousand and a million copies a year. Her first novel We the Living was admired by Mencken. Night of January 16th opened on Broadway. Her major novel The Fountainhead (1943) was "masterful". Atlas Shrugged (1957) was Rand's magnus opus.
The "protective" service rendered by the State is paid for not only with taxes but also with subservience. Society is much poorer for it.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 67-81 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 117-133 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 31-47 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 164-175 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 81-95 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
