Economic Growth
“Economic growth” means the rise of an economy’s productivity, due to the
discovery of new products, new techniques, which means: due to the achievements
of men’s productive ability.
“Promises to Parasites Fail to Bring Results,”The Los Angeles times , June 24, 1962
Nothing can raise a country’s productivity except technology, and technology is
the final product of a complex of sciences (including philosophy), each of them
kept alive and moving by the achievements of a few independent minds.
Copyright © 1986 by Harry Binswanger.
Introduction copyright © 1986 by Leonard Peikoff.
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Acknowledgments
Excerpts from The Ominous Parallels , by Leonard Peikoff. Copyright © 1982 by Leonard Peikoff. Reprinted with permission of Stein and Day Publishers.
Excerpts from The Romantic Manifesto , by Ayn Rand. Copyright © 1971, by The Objectivist . Reprinted with permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Excerpts from Atlas Shrugged , copyright © 1957 by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead , copyright © 1943 by Ayn Rand, and For the New Intellectual , copyright © 1961 by Ayn Rand. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ayn Rand.
Excerpts from Philosophy: Who Needs It , by Ayn Rand. Copyright © 1982 by Leonard Peikoff, Executor, Estate of Ayn Rand. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ayn Rand.
Excerpts from “The Philosophy of Objectivism” lecture series. Copyright © 1976 by Leonard Peikoff. Reprinted by permission.
Excerpts from Alvin Toffler’s interview with Ayn Rand, which first appeared in Playboy magazine. Copyright © 1964. Reprinted by permission of Alvin Toffler.
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