Penguin Books Australia

WE THINK WE KNOW WHAT'S COMING.
BUT IS IT ALREADY TOO LATE?

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils...

The 250th-anniversary edition of the influential treatise on social responsibility that has shaped leaders from Bill Gates to Barack Obama

'Keynes's economic policies helped lift Britain from its 1930s slump. This accessible, timely study argues he could do the same again' 
DOMINIC LAWSON, SUNDAY TIMES

'One would expect brokers to be wrong. If, in addition to their other inside advantages, they were capable of good advice, clearly they would have retired long ago with a large fortune'  JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.'

In addition to placing well-known figures – including Adam Smith...