Economics

Economics in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

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ABSTRACT: This article provides a summary of economic issues found in Atlas Shrugged. It discusses the role of individual initiative, creativity, and
productivity in economic progress as illustrated in this novel. It also shows the novel’s depiction of the benefits of trade—and the destruction of exchange
relationships and production that results from government intervention in the economy. Rand included a great many valuable insights about money
in the novel’s famous “money speech.” In addition, the book analyzes Galt’s Gulch as a free market economy. The novel is, in part, a treatise on economics
providing a literary treatment of proper economic principles.

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Economics in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

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