DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-S089-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Article Summary
Ayn Rand was a Russian-born US novelist and philosopher who exerted considerable influence in the conservative and libertarian intellectual movements in the post-war USA. Rand’s ideas were expressed mainly through her novels; she set forth a view of morality as based in rational self-interest and in political philosophy defended an unrestrained form of capitalism.
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