| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Article | NASD Punishes Quattrone for Asserting His Rights | Roger Donway | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Kenneth G. Hausman, a lawyer for former investment banker Frank Quattrone, describes the outrageous behavior of the National Association of Securities Dealers in permanently banning Quattrone from the industry-and the basis of his appeal to the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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| Article | Ayn Rand at 100 | Edward Hudgins | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: How do the most productive individuals, those who are responsible for a society’s prosperity, find themselves abused by politicians and dishonest businessmen and women? Ayn Rand sees the key in morality, and she coined the phrase that best describes the root of the problem: the sanction of the victim. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Government and Business | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: The Rule of Lawyers, Property Matters, Government Failure, Just Get Out of the Way. |
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| Letters | Letters: Animal Rights, Frank Quattrone | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Animal rights; the case for Frank Quattrone. |
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| Miscellaneous | September, 2004 Soundings | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Aristrocrats of Production, Technology Awards and honors, and a survey on 'Trusting Business.' |
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| Op-ed | Big Tobacco's Suicidal Detente | Andrew Bissell | 8/12/2004 |
| Description: Tobacco company Philip Morris is supporting a Congressional plan that would place on it even more regulations. But as Andrew Bissell argues in this op-ed, for too long tobacco companies have tried to make deals with anti-smoking zealots who want to shut them down, only to find such deals don't purchase peace but simply invite more attacks. Whether one is a smoker or not, one must recognize that consumer freedom is in danger when government can snuff out industries and products of which they disapprove. |
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| Op-ed | Celebrating Apollo 11's Sense of Life | Edward Hudgins | 7/18/2004 |
| Description: July 20 marks the 35th anniversary of the first Moon landing. That achievement is a wonderful manifestation of America's optimistic sense of life, our understanding that if we put our minds and wills to a task, we can do almost anything. But that day also reminds us that in the long run, private entrepreneurs, not government agencies, make goods and services available for everyone. So let's take time to reflect on the great achievements of the past and to recognize that America's optimistic sense of life means that our greatest achievements will be yet to come! |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Capitalists | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Capitalists, Rockefeller, Gates, etc... |
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| Article | Rockefeller and the Muckrakers | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Throughout his long life of ninety-eight years, John D. Rockefeller Sr. heard the same lies told about him year after year, decade after decade, and generation after generation. |
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| Article | In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Pro-capitalists need to offer a defense of big-business executives that is not undercut by libertinism, postmodern moral skepticism, religious morality, or utopian illusions. |
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| Article | The Case for Frank Quattrone | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in May 2004 on two counts of obstructing justice and one count of witness tampering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 8, and faces up to twenty years in prison. What was the exact nature of Quattrone’s alleged crime? And how strong was the evidence against him? |
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| Center News | Las Vegas Conference on Values of Capitalism | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center held its 2004 Spring Conference on April 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme was "Values of Capitalism." The scene was the sumptuous Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Victorian Atlas | Roger Donway | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Henry Bessemer may have been the first person to make his career as an inventor selling in an open market. As a result of his restless, problem-solving mind, he created the inventions that began the Steel Age. Yet our culture's biographers, who expend decades writing the lives of artistic frauds and power-seeking politicians, have never turned their attention to this Atlas of nineteenth-century industry. |
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| Op-ed | Return to the Moon? Not with this NASA | Edward Hudgins | 1/24/2004 |
| Description: If we're true to our nature, we will explorer and settle planets. But NASA will not get us to Mars; only individuals with vision, acting in a free market, will make us a truly space-faring civilization. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Can a Return to the Moon Revive the Spirit of Apollo? | Edward Hudgins | 1/17/2004 |
| Description: A return to the moon and a trip to Mars will only ignite the human spirit if accomplished by the initiative of private individuals and entrepreneurs, not wasetful government bureaucracy. |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Wright Stuff | Ralph Kinney Bennett | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: It has taken a hundred years, and it is still sinking into the minds of scientists and aeronautical engineers and craftsmen just how deep, how original, how prescient was the genius of the Wright brothers. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Protecting Property and Profits | Edward Hudgins | 7/18/2003 |
| Description: Pharmaceutical companies are entitled to their profits and re-importation of drugs supports state-sponsored theft. |
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| Letters | Letters: Malpractice, Augusta National (June 2003) | | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Letters On Medical Malpractice Suits and On Augusta National's Men-Only Membership |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Capitalist Heroes | | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land By Victor K. McElheny; James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest By Albro Martin; The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 By Niall Ferguson; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. By Ron Chernow |
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| Article | For a Museum of Capitalism | David Kelley | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: We need a museum of capitalism to celebrate the producers who make civilization possible. |
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| Center News | Objectivism Is Out of This World | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: After the tragic destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, Dennis Tito, the first private citizen-explorer to pay his own way to space, called together an elite group of some forty experts, space advocates, and businessmen to consider the future of man in space. |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Message of Alexander Graham Bell | Roger Donway | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: By hard work and hard thinking, Bell won the most profitable patent ever issued in America. Unfortunately, some historians have twisted his story to suggest that the rewards of invention under capitalism are a matter of luck. |
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| Op-ed | Op-ed: Doctors Shrug | Edward Hudgins | 1/15/2003 |
| Description: Like a scene out of Ayn Rand’s novel 'Atlas Shrugged,' physicians in West Virginia have gone on strike, a strike is threatened in Pennsylvania, and across the country doctors are quitting their profession. |
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| Center News | Investing in the Future of Freedom | | 12/18/2002 |
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| Article | The State-Made Crisis in Health Insurance | David Kelley | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: The health insurance "crisis," like other problems of the health care industry, is the product of government interventions in the market. |
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| Article | The Inherent Individualism of Insurance | Stephen A. Moses | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: No matter how rational and focused we are, we remain vulnerable to unexpected events that can throw our lives into turmoil. We need a tool to help us mitigate the consequences of uncertainty in day-to-day life. Fortunately, we have such a tool: it's called insurance. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Risk and Rational Planning | | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: A Life of One Own; Medicare's Midlife Crisis; American Health Care; From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State |
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| Op-ed | Responsibility, Not Regulation | Shawn E. Klein | 7/30/2002 |
| Description: In the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, we need more
responsibility, not more regulation. |
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| Press Release | Release: Is Greed Good? | Patrick Stephens | 7/23/2002 |
| Description: Is greed good? Alan Greenspan vs. Ayn Rand. |
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| Op-ed | Capitalism and financial scandal | Malini Kochhar | 7/23/2002 |
| Description: Capitalism isn't to blame for ImClone, Enron or Worldcom. But
it can save us from them.
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| Commentary | The Morality of Money | William Thomas | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Ever since Ayn Rand wrote Francisco d'Anconia's soliloquy on money, Objectivists have proclaimed the sign of the dollar to be a badge of nobility. But the recent spate of corporate scandals has demonstrated the need to make certain distinctions regarding the ownership, acquisition, and expenditure of money. TOC's manager of research and training explains why. |
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| Commentary | The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation | Roger Donway | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Enron's failure was not the product of capitalism, as the Left alleges, nor merely the result of crime, as the Right avers. It was rooted in the postmodern tenor of the firm's corporate values. |
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| Commentary | When Is a Fake a Fraud? | Edward Hudgins | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The Federal Trade Commission and the Florida attorney general have charged Miss Cleo and her Psychic Readers Network with fraud. But the real problem is not with Miss Cleo; it's with her clients. |
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| Commentary | Enron's Lessons for Capitalism | William Thomas | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: The multiple failures brought to light by Enron’s collapse offer a salutary lesson to pro-capitalists: free markets do not automatically produce justice, nobility, excellence. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Business Success | | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Business Success: Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land; James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest; The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. |
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| Review | The Virtue of Profit and the Profitable Virtues | David Kelley | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: In Ayn Rand and Business, Donna Greiner and Theodore Kinni address the moral foundations that Objectivism provides for business and management. The result is a work that will be of value to Objectivist and buiness readers alike. |
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| Review | Visionary Companies | Tal Ben-Shahar | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: Business consultant Tal Ben-Shahar reviews Built to Last, which shows why the moral corporation tends to be the most profitable also. |
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| Commentary | The Cipro Looters | William Thomas | 11/12/2001 |
| Description: William Thomas tells the story of the looting of drug maker Bayer for its anthrax fighting antibiotic drug, Cipro. |
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| Review | From Ocean to Ocean | Frank Bryan | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: Frank Bryan reviews Stephen Ambroses's account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. |
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| Interview | CEI's Fred Smith is Marketing the Market | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An exclusive interview with Fred Smith, founder and president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wherein we learn how CEI puts ideas into action to curb and reverse the growth of collectivism and statism. |
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| Interview | Marketing the Market | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An outtake from "CEI's Fred Smith is Marketing the Market," an interview with CEI founder and president Fred Smith, published in the March 2000 Navigator. |
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| Article | What Objectivists Can Learn from Young Jim Hill | Roger Donway | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: Objectivists should remember Jim Hill not only as building a transcontinental railroad, but for his other achievements too. |
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| Article | A Peripatetic Career | Patricia Speer | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: A consideration of Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard |
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| Interview | Regulation's Yoke | | 8/1/1999 |
| Description: An exclusive interview with one of America's best-known scholars of regulatory burden: Thomas D. Hopkins, dean of the College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology. According to Hopkins, regulation has shifted sharply from constraints on imports and prices to regulations in the environmental and risk-reduction category, with the latter nearly tripling its percentage of the total burden. Meanwhile, the total cost of environmental regulation, in constant 1995 dollars, has more than tripled, and now stands at 260 billion dollars or more, exceeding the cost of national defense. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, January 1999 | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Hollywood vs. Truth; House of Mao; Bad analogy; WIC and brand names; judge blocks business |
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| Interview | Banking, Regulation, and the Information Age | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: An interview with IOS Sponsor Tom Cirillo on the intersection of revolutions in information processing and financial services. |
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| Interview | A Guide to the Microsoft Case | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Robert A. Levy, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute is interviewed on his views regarding the charges by the Justice Department against Microsoft. (9/98) |
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| Interview | A Guide to the Microsoft Case Outakes | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Outtakes from the September 1998 interview with Robert Levy (9/98) |
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| Article | A Better Way to Run a Railroad | Frank Bryan | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Frank Bryan discusses a railroad company deserving of our admiration. |
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| Article | The Financier | Jeff Scott | 9/1/1997 |
| Description: Spells out what made Michael Milken the greatest financier of this era. |
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| Excerpt | The Best Work of the Best Minds | Stephen Hicks | 6/1/1994 |
| Description: An excerpt from a forthcoming book on business ethics by Professer Stephen Hicks. |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Business Ethics | Stephen Hicks | |
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| Audio | Antitrust vs. Capitalism | David Mayer | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. This lecture traces the premises of antitrust law to principles that are feudal, monarchical, and paternalistic—and inapplicable to American society.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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