Free Market Revolution by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins

Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government is now available at Amazon.

From the description:

A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. 

The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of Americans are alarmed by Big Government, but skeptical that anything can or will be done to stop the growth of the state. In Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rand's legacy argue that the answer lies in her pioneering philosophy of capitalism and self-interest -a philosophy that more and more people are turning to for answers. In the past few years, Rand's works have surged to new peaks of popularity, as politicians like Paul Ryan, media figures like John Stossel, and businessmen like John Mackey routinely name her as one of their chief influences. Here, Brook and Watkins explain how her ideas can solve a host of political and economic ills, including the debt crisis, inflation, overregulation, and the swelling welfare state. And most important, they show how Rand's philosophy can enable defenders of the free market to seize the moral high ground in the fight to limit government. This is a fresh and urgent look at the ideas of one of the most controversial figures in modern history - ideas that may prove the only hope for the future.

To anyone who is relatively unfamiliar with Ayn Rand's ideas, but interested in solving our current economic and cultural problems, I encourage you to read this book. I encourage anyone who is very familiar with Rand's ideas to tell friends about this book, loan your copy to them, or give it to them as a gift.

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Atlas Shrugged, Altruism and Egoism

After a brief introduction to Atlas Shrugged, this essay provides a very good overview of the alternative between altruism and egoism. While not a work of technical philosophy, it is substantial: it quotes philosophers and textbooks that explain the meaning of altruism and clearly differentiates what rational egoism means for one's life, versus what altruism means. It also generally outlines Ayn Rand's argument for life as the standard of value and for rational egoism.

Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's Morality of Egoism by Craig Biddle

 The book-length version can be found here: Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle

Recommended technical works are here: Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality and Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith

Objectivism Resources: Books and Links

Resources for learning about Objectivism:

Books

Metaphysics and Overview of Philosophy:

• Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff
  

Epistemology:

• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, Exp. 2nd Ed. by Ayn Rand

Ethics and Human Nature, Overview:

• The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
• Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle

Meta-ethics, Detailed:

• Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality by Tara Smith

Normative Ethics, Detailed:

• Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith

Politics:

• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
• Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights by Andrew Bernstein
• The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire by Andrew Bernstein
• Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas by Andrew Bernstein

Esthetics:

• The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand

Philosophical Methods / Applied Epistemology:

• Objectivism Through Induction by Leonard Peikoff (CD lecture course out of production, but digital copies will soon be for sale at the Ayn Rand Bookstore)
• Understanding Objectivism: A Guide to Learning Ayn Rand's Philosophy by Leonard Peikoff (Lecture course or book)

Applications / Political and Cultural Analysis:

• Philosophy: Who Needs It (The Ayn Rand Library Vol. 1) by Ayn Rand
• The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand and Peter Schwartz
• For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
• The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand's Philosophical Fiction:

• Atlas Shrugged
• The Fountainhead
• Anthem
• We the Living

Websites

Ayn Rand Lexicon (Philosophical terms defined and explained by Ayn Rand and other sources she approved.)

Introduction to Objectivism on YouTube

Ayn Rand Institute

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ayn Rand (Entry describing Rand's philosophy.)

Objectivist Answers (Philosophical questions answered by self-described Objectivists. Answers are user-moderated, and may or may not agree with Objectivism as defined by Ayn Rand and fleshed out by professional Objectivist intellectuals.)

Objectivism Online Forum (Discuss philosophy and other topics with self-described Objectivists.)

The Objective Standard (Objectivist periodical.)

Leonard Peikoff Website/Podcast (Philosophy Ph.D. and foremost authority on Objectivism answers questions.)

Objectivist Academic Center (Instruction in the principles and methods of Objectivism and in communication.)

The Ayn Rand Society (Organization affiliated with the American Philosophical Association that fosters scholarly study of Objectivism.)