Objectivism and Austrian Economics: Salsman as “hyper-inflationist.” Stefan Karlsson over at mises.org complained a few years ago that man...

Objectivism and Austrian Economics: entrepreneurship. Richard Salsman is on record for criticizing von Mises’ “(absurd) theory of the essen...

Objectivism and Austrian Economics: Salsman’s Revisionism. In the recommended bibliography of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal , one finds mor...

The Fed. According to Jerome Tuccille, Alan Greenspan once testified in front of congressional committee that if it were up to him (i.e., G...

Ayn Rand at Alan Greenspan's inauguration as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 197 4. Currently the Ayn Rand Institute is en...

Former Objectivist and regular ARCHNblog commenter Michael Prescott replies to current Objectivist and regular ARCHNblog commenter John Don...

For reasons unknown, the sidebar disappears unless I insert a post above the "Ethics Of Emergencies" post. So here it is.

Continuing our para by para examination of Rand's "The Ethics of Emergencies" (Earlier Parts here ). Paragraph 9: Most men do ...

Jason Sieckmann has requested that one of us at ARCHN provide "a list of [his] top ten fave philosophy books." Since this seems l...

Guest commenter Neil Parille finds that some of the classic Objectivist talking points on religion are in fact simple misunderstandings: Ayn...

While we're on the subject of Objectivism and the economic crisis, it seems many Objectivists are reacting to that (and the election of ...

Jeremiah Tucker revisits "Atlas Shrugged" for financial apocalypse. (hat tip to Jason at Catallaxy )

It turns out there are no true Randian individualists  in foxholes. Sharp-eyed commenter Michael Prescott notes West Virginia's BB&...

Role of deregulation in current crisis. David Horowitz, in his blog over at frontpagemag.com provides additional evidence of the role tha...

Greenspan’s primary error. Despite the howls of condemnation hurled against Greenspan by the Objectivist rabble, which hsa been fervently t...

An anonymous commenter points us to this piece posted at Objectivism Online, which claims that any proposed bailout of the auto industry i...

Greenspan’s breaking away from Objectivism. In his autobiography, The Age of Turbulence , Greenspan explains why he stopped being an orthod...

Since Rand is no longer with us, we can only guess what she might have done. Here I offer merely two possible conjectures: (1) Either she wo...

Rand’s influence on Greenspan. In his autobiography, The Age of Turbulence , Greenspan acknowledges an intellectual debt to Ayn Rand: Ayn R...

“Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state o...