Home » News \ Tags: Ayn Rand, capitalism, Evening At FEE, John Blundell, Steven Horwitz, Yaron Brook

Ayn Rand’s Moral Defense of Capitalism

By Brian Aitken
Published: 11 November 2011

On November 5, 2011, Yaron Brook, President & Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, spoke about Ayn Rand’s moral defense of capitalism. The event drew close to 200 attendees at the FEE headquarters in Irvington, NY.

The Foundation for Economic Education has been hosting these Evenings With FEE for several years with speakers like Robert Levy (Chairman of the Cato Institute’s Board of Directors), Steve Horwitz (Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University), and John Blundell (Former Director General & Ralph Harris Fellow at the Institute for Economic Affairs).

Couldn’t make it to the Evening At FEE? Watch it in HD here: http://youtu.be/v4nbgZH3xrQ

3 Comments »

It is so nice to see advanced discussion from Yaron Brook. I think about the Declaration of Independence a lot these days. The Right to the pursuit of happiness never meant so much to me before. The conditions in the USA are making me very unhappy. These days the right to the pursuit of happiness can translate to only one thing. Fixing the problems with the USA. Whatever they are.

//Jeff Olstad
15 November 2011 at 3:42 pm

I was there!

Thank you to FEE for so many wonderful speakers over the years …

//Barry Loberfeld
15 November 2011 at 4:32 pm

Hi:
Proudly “selfish” here! And loving it.
As a selfish person I have two ways to comment. One is I can say, fine, great, wonderful, perfect, and couldn’t be better. For that the trade is I fit in line and parade of the “Drum beaters” and happy party of free markets. Maybe even be “liked”.

The other way is to be more critical with the end of “winning” in view. This means insisting without compromise that there is something missing among the free market presentations. If with each presentation, there could be more direct response to the “government control crowd” especially with respect to Robber Barons in this case.
I’ve read Rand on Capitalism, Locke on the Prime Movers, and other free market leaders. They seem to avoid the critical complaints, as Yaron does here, of course he had only a few minutes but when he states the Carnegie was a giant of Morality, needs to at least for a second or two say something about the HomeStead strike and other similar situations.

When Sheldon designs a wonderful sign showing how much the “War on Drugs” costs, it would be great to have a second sign to answer to questions the other side asks “how much more crime will their be?” How many more addicts. Now, I know Sheldon, brilliant as he and his team are can easily and so effectively do this that it would “blow” away the other side.
What is in this side two for me selfishly? I just want to be know as a proponent of full application giving the other side, no place to hide, so they can be free and productive and deal with me in business…eventually.

Ciao,
Jim

//James Smith
23 November 2011 at 10:01 am