Capitalism and commerce in imaginative literature : perspectives on business from novels and plays / edited by Edward W. Younkins.

Table of Contents: “…Block -- The freedom gradient in Ayn Rand's novels / Andrew Bernstein -- Identity, professional ethics, and substantive style in The Fountainhead / William Kline -- Business in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged / Edward W. …”
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Unpublishable! : rejected writers from Jane Austen to Zane Grey / Elaine Borish. by Borish, Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Somerset Maugham -- George Orwell -- Beatrix Potter -- Barbara Pym -- Ayn Rand -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- George Bernard Shaw -- John Steinbeck -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Jules Verne -- Evelyn Waugh -- H.G. …”

BioShock and philosophy : irrational game, rational book / edited by Luke Cuddy.

Table of Contents: “…; Notes; Chapter 2 The Value of Art in BioShock: Ayn Rand, Emotion, and Choice; Ayn Rand on Art, Ethics, and Choice; Horror Beneath the Waves; Why Randians Should Celebrate BioShock.…”
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The promise of liberty : a non-utopian vision / Tibor R. Machan. by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists v. their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions : individualism & human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem & the tragedy of the common -- Government budget crises -- Right to private property -- Revisiting a critique -- Leo Strauss & neo-conservatism -- Tocqueville & Ayn Rand -- Should the constitution be rescued? -- Distraction of anarchism -- On owning intellectual stuff -- Fetal rights & liberty -- Speculation on post-communism -- The right to be wrong -- Reflections on democracy -- The flaws of stakeholder theory -- Individualism should respect rights.…”
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Ladies for liberty : women who made a difference in American history / John Blundell. by Blundell, John

Table of Contents: “…Clare Boothe Luce; Chapter 17. Ayn Rand; Chapter 18. Rose Director Friedman.…”
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Business ethics & common sense / edited by Robert W. McGee.

Table of Contents: “…Rasmussen -- Business : myth and morality / James E. Chesher -- Ayn Rand's objectivist ethics as the foundation of business ethics / Jerry Kirkpatrick -- What is the public interest? …”

The other fifties : interrogating midcentury American icons / edited by Joel Foreman.

Table of Contents: “…Salinger's paperback hero / Lee Medovoi -- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something (red, white, and) blue : Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and objectivist ideology / Stacey Olster -- The road to rapprochement : Krushchev's 1959 visit to America / Stephen J. …”

Written communications that inform and influence.

Table of Contents: “…First, don't write an outline / John Clayton -- Making your proposal come out on top / Nick Wreden -- Building a bridge over the River Boredom / Beverly Ballaro and Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay -- When to ignore your readers / John Clayton -- A winning proposition / Janice Obuchowski -- Writing well when time is tight / Nick Morgan -- The best memo you'll ever write / Holly Weeks -- Find the right tone for your business writing / Richard Bierck -- Communication as a change tool / Stever Robbins -- Rhyme and reason : what poetry has to say to business writers / Susan G. Parker -- Ayn Rand on writing / Theodore Kinni -- When one style does not fit all / John Clayton -- Don't push that send button! …”

Champions of a free society : ideas of capitalism's philosophers and economists / Edward W. Younkins. by Younkins, Edward W. (Edward Wayne), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Lao Tzu's naturalistic metaphysics, ethics, and politics -- Aristotle and human flourishing -- Aristotle and economics -- Epicurus on freedom and happiness -- Thomas Aquinas's Christian Aristotelianism -- Spinoza on freedom, ethics, and politics -- John Locke's limited state -- Turgot on progress and political economy -- Adam Smith's moral and economic system -- Jean-Baptiste Say's law of markets : a fundamental, conceptual integration -- Herbert Spencer on liberty and human progress -- Carl Menger's economics of well-being -- Ludwig von Mises on human action -- Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism -- Murray Rothbard's Randian Austrianism -- The road to objective economics : Hayek takes a wrong turn -- Milton Friedman's pragmatic and incremental libertarianism -- Mises, Friedman, and Rand : a methodological comparison -- James M. …”
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Tough love : sexuality, compassion, and the Christian right / Cynthia Burack. by Burack, Cynthia, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…; Identity in Politics; Caution: Hazardous Compassion Ahead; The Miserable Ones; Love among the Outcasts; A World of Others; Revisiting Compassion Campaigns; Arendt and Christian Love; Chapter 4: Just Deserts: The Compassion of Ayn Rand; Who Is John Galt?; Rand, Sex, and Gender.…”
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Griftopia : bubble machines, vampire squids, and the long con that is breaking America / Matt Taibbi. by Taibbi, Matt

The freedom of peaceful action : on the origin of individual rights / Stuart Hayashi. by Hayashi, Stuart

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Griftopia : a story of bankers, politicians, and the most audiacious power grab in American history / Matt Taibbi. by Taibbi, Matt

Ethical communication : moral stances in human dialogue / edited by Clifford G. Christians and John C. Merrill.

Table of Contents: “…Gunkel -- Kautilya of India : social egoism / John C. Merrill -- Ayn Rand : rational self-interest / John C. Merrill -- The autonomy stance : loyalty to freedom -- Henry David Thoreau : value of solitude / Stephanie Craft -- John Locke : natural rights / Patrick Lee Plaisance -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer : courage versus authority / Ronald C. …”

The bubble economy : is sustainable growth possible? / Robert U. Ayres. by Ayres, Robert U.

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The reactionary mind : conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin / Corey Robin. by Robin, Corey, 1967-

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Novel Shocks : Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism. by Tucker-Abramson, Myka

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101 Great Philosophers. by Pirie, Madsen

Table of Contents: “…Moore; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Erwin SchrÃœdinger; Martin Heidegger; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Herbert Marcuse; Friedrich Hayek; Gilbert Ryle; Michael Oakeshott; Karl Popper; Arthur Koestler; Ayn Rand; Jean-Paul Sartre; Hannah Arendt; H.L.A. Hart; Isaiah Berlin; A.J. …”
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Park Avenue : Money, Power, and the American Dream / DR TV (Television station : Copenhagen, Denmark).

Table of Contents: “…Two Park Avenues (2:35) -- Modeling Financial Inequity with Monopoly (3:13) -- Low Upward Mobility (2:04) -- Chasm in Income Distribution (1:44) -- Concentration of Billionaires at 740 Park Ave. (2:02) -- Residents of 740 Park Ave. (2:55) -- "Winner-Take-All Politics" (0:54) -- Corrupt Lobbyists & Politicians. (2:21) -- Raising Campaign Funds at 740 Park Ave. (1:59) -- Tax Advantages for the Rich (3:02) -- Koch Brothers (3:07) -- Koch Brothers & Tea Party (1:57) -- Ayn Rand Ideology in the Tea Party (3:16) -- Paul Ryan's Budget Plan (3:48) -- Education, Employment, & Class Mobility (2:09) -- Paul Ryan's Campaign Against Food Stamps (2:25) -- Impact of Bush Tax Cuts (2:27) -- Overpaying America's CEOs (2:34) -- Skewed Capitalist Morality (1:24) -- Entitlement & "Class Warfare" (2:29) -- Scott Walker's Anti-Union Politics (3:40) -- Scott Walker's Recall & National Agenda (2:53) -- Relationship Between Rich & Poor in the U.S. (3:10) -- Credits: Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream-Why Poverty? …”
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Swipe Left : Dating Apps Have Killed Romance : A Debate / Intelligence Squared US.

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