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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a collection of essays on capitalism.  While the book was published in 1986, some essays in the book were written as far back as the 60s.  As a compendium of essays can do, without carefully selecting included content, some of the essays seem to stray from the main emphasis of the whole...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11499051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a searing commentary on the machinations of the left and the right with regards to both parties abject disregard or abjuration of the idea of freedom. What's more is that to read  this book now, some 43 years after its first printing is to listen to the the prescience of the author hers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60710772">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Short, quick, and to the point. Rand doesn't let down. Objectivism has its flaws, and when extended to the realm of economics, also presents a few roadblocks. Regardless, Rand adquately points out that generally <em>regulation</em> is to blame when things &quot;go wrong&quot; with capitalistic environments....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74617196">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m enjoying reading these collections of essays by Ayn Rand and her pals on the philosophy of individual rights.  This volume showed how the preservation of individual rights is closely related to the economic theory of capitalism.  I was also interested in the appendix about her views on the nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12134800">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has some really great essays and some which are not so fresh. When it shines, it really shines. I particularly liked young Greenspan's brilliant historical insight into the antitrust laws of the US, and what it really takes to create a monopoly (government intervention in the market).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of essays on laissez faire Capitalism as a way of political governance. It includes several texts by other authors such as Alan Greenspan about economics and some common misconceptions about what is Capitalism and how it works.<br/><br/>An important read for anyone interested in objec...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting to read Rand's theories directly as opposed to the interpretations of devotees and critics, especially her concepts on the role of government and of the essential definition and role of human rights. Some points worth considering, but far too much idolization of the businessman and far t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52313581">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the cherry that tops the Ayn Rand sundae I've been consuming for the past 2 1/2 years. Capitalism really is an unknown ideal, and it's a shame that it was never given an honest chance to fully manifest. What we have now is nowhere near capitalism- we're on a downward slippery slope to social...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50144257">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn Rand's novels in actual philosophy form... believe me it's not as good as her novels]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it is a very interesting book but very biased]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I haven't finished every essay in this book but having devoured the bulk of them I feel quite content to say that this book is the golden age of objectivist writing. Before Ayn Rand turned her institute into a cult of personality and before Alan Greenspan turned his back on the principles he h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17694953">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading essays by Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, et al isn't the most entertaining of reads, and was quite rough at times. I'd prefer to read the theories they have in novel form (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, etc), though there were some essays that were scarily on-point regarding the current econom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1423283">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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