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Drink a round to the Kruggerrand, Even, God help us, to Ayn Rand...
FRIEDMAN DOES not speak for all libertarians; the movement is too diverse for that. His book is an addition to the growing shelf of works that seek to outline a future consistently libertarian society. USC philosophy professor John Hospers, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard are others who have written similar books. Many have hailed Rothbard's scholarly "For a New Liberty" as the libertarian manifesto and he has become the leading theoretician of the movement...
...streetcar conductor in Lewiston, Longley is the model of the self-made man, the kind of person who jogs a mile every morning, needs only three hours of sleep a night, and avows that Ayn Rand is his favorite author. A fervent believer in the virtues of hard work, Longley as a youth labored in a textile mill to support his widowed mother and five sisters and brothers. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went on to build one of the biggest insurance agencies in the state...
...that there are jokes about Philosopher Ayn Rand's becoming the Ford Administration's primary behind-the-scenes adviser now that her friend Alan Greenspan heads the President's Council of Economic Advisers. If previous Administrations had taken Rand's advice to stop interfering in the capitalist system, the U.S. wouldn't be in its present economic mess. Woolsey Teller Indianapolis...
...wherefore of Greenspan's sympathy for Wall Street brokers became clear when I read of his fascination with Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Certainly it is understandable that his concern would lie with captains of finance rather than with those of us unable to accumulate anything...