History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2017.
History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2017.
In 1957, the Russian-born American philosopher, Ayn Rand, published Atlas Shrugged, one of the most politically influential American novels of the 20th Century. The best-seller imagines a dystopia in which all wealth-creators go on strike causing the global economy to collapse. Atlas Shrugged made Ayn Rand a hero for free-market economists and political libertarians. Simon Watts talks to Leonard Peikoff, one of Ayn Rand's earliest followers.
(Photo: Ayn Rand in New York in 1962. Credit: AP)
