Atlas Shrugged at 50

Chris Coyne points to this NYT article on Rand's classic work.

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[Rafe Champion]

There is an Ayn Rand blog run by Greg Nyquist and Daniel Barnes http://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com/

Nyquist is a freelance writer on philosophy and economics with a strong line of criticism of the discipline http://homepage.mac.com/machiavel/Text/Economics.htm

Barnes is a New Zealand advertising man http://www.barnesadvertising.com/home/home.html He is a critical rationalist and he uses the blog to argue in public with a group of NZ Objectivists. His agency has an interesting philosophy. "Everyone is creative. Without creativity, the consumer would have no product...As a client, you use your creativity to invent or improve your particular product or service. As an advertising agency, we use ours to find better ways to sell what you do. But no matter how you use it, your creativity always starts with a kind of playfulness; a willingness to be open-minded, to experiment, to be imaginative. To bend or ignore the rules, to ask "What if...?", and to try what no-one else has done before...Our agency philosophy is "play to win". On one level, this means that if you're going to get in the game, you should aim to win it...But on another level, "play to win" is also about keeping a level of playfulness when you try to solve problems - no matter how important they seem to be. Remember, truly great insights are always simple, and always come from people who aren't bogged down in a problem. Once you understand this, you will come up with best solutions, and come up with them first. And you will win."