reading > you h:

 

That was the first thing I thought about. :rofl:

 

the title sounds interesting...whats it about?

 

This guy looked at an atlas..

..and shrugged.



















:hsugh:
h: that was bad

 

It isw about Capitalism. It is pretty much the cornerstone of conservative thought on economics (not neo-conservative...they suck). It preaches a complete Laissez-Faire economy and the importance of greed and self-interest in our economy.

It is hard to explain a 1000+ page book in a post. Just read it :P

 

I think the ideas presented in Ayn Rand's work are bunk and junk. I mean, greed and self-interest will drive a society much further than communal interest, but capitalism without human interest is one of the most destructive forces we humans can muster.

 

how does it read? like an econ text book, or more like a novel?

 

It is a novel.

Like I said, I do not believe everything in the book, but her ideas are extremely interesting.

 

that would explain it.. but i've come across a couple novels that read like text books. not necessarily technical, but excruciatingly slow, boring, disjointed, going nowhere, etc. that's what i was getting at. maybe i'll pick it up one of these days, when i have time to actually read a book.

 

It is long, and boring in a few parts, but it is exceedingly well written.