2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged , a novel that has had an enormous impact on the libertarian movement. Atlas Shrugged offered a powerful and inspiring case, both intellectual and emotional, for libertarian ideas at a time when such resources were thin on the ground. While the relationship of Rand and
It was October 1957, several days before the official publication date. That evening, I went with Ayn, Frank, and my husband, Nathaniel, to see if the book was displayed in the Random House window. It was the first time we had seen the book outside of our own small, private world of Ayn’s apartment, the first time it had been out in the wider
The aim of this article is to resolve the putative contradiction between Hayek’s “legal framework of general and abstract rules” and the concepts of “twin ideas of evolution and of the spontaneous formation of order”. Volume 21, Number 4 (2007) Daumann, Frank. “Evolution and the Rule of Law: Hayek’s Concept of Liberal Order Reconsidered.”
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.