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Humans Must Choose Egoism: An Excerpt from Andrew Bernstein’s Captalist Solutions
The key to Ayn Rand’s version of rational egoism lies in understanding the nature of values, and the role they play in human life.
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Don Luskin is Chief Investment Officer for Trend Macrolytics, an economics research and consulting service providing exclusive market-focused, real-time analysis to the institutional investment community. You can visit the weblog of his forthcoming book ‘The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid’ at www.poorandstupid.com. He is also a contributing writer to SmartMoney.com.
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