Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal tackles these and other timeless questions about capitalism, and lays out Rand’s provocative thesis: that the system of laissez-faire capitalism is a moral ideal.
Who wrote capitalism the Unknown Ideal?
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal is a collection of essays, mostly by the philosopher Ayn Rand, with additional essays by her associates Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. The authors focus on the moral nature of laissez-faire capitalism and private property.
What is a capitalist ideal?
The other dimension concerns the range of objects 13 over which one can have property rights. The capitalist ideal is to extend as far as possible the range of things that are privately owned. Of course under the capitalist ideal, consumer and productive goods are privately owned. So too are natural resources.
