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Ayn Rand's 1957 novel — imagining a world where society's productive geniuses go on strike, withdrawing from an increasingly collectivist economy — which functions as a fictional argument for Rand's Objectivism and capitalism — the most commercially successful philosophical novel.
Russian-American novelist and philosopher — author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged — founder of Objectivism — who argued for rational self-interest as the highest virtue and capitalism as the only moral social system — the most commercially successful philosopher in American history.
American philosopher — founder of the Atlas Society (formerly The Objectivist Center) — who split from the official Ayn Rand Institute to create a more 'open' Objectivism that engages critically with non-Objectivist ideas.