Welcome

This page points out essays, authors, and books useful to understand capitalism and advocate it.

This site is the work of the Society for the Advancement of Individual Rights (based in Switzerland); we also describe here our goals and activities.

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Essays

• Introducing Objectivism, Ayn Rand
• The Philosophy of Objectivism: A Brief Summary, Leonard Peikoff
• Essentials of Objectivism, Ayn Rand Institute
• Apollo 11 — The July 16, 1969 Launch: A Symbol of Man's Greatness, Ayn Rand
• The Toxicity of Environmentalism, George Reisman

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Authors

For further enlightenment, we recommend the works of:

• Ayn Rand

  I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason.

• Leonard Peikoff

  To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

• Frédéric Bastiat

• George Reisman

• Ludwig von Mises

  There cannot be too much of a correct theory.

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Books

The following are the most important works available to appreciate capitalism in its philosophical, economical, social, and historical aspects. For each book below, the title is a direct link to amazon.com.

• Ayn Rand
  • Atlas Shrugged — what is the motor of the world?
  • The Fountainhead — what is the motor of man's soul?
  • We The Living
  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
  • The Virtue of Selfishness
  
  
• Leonard Peikoff
  • Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
  • Ominous Parallels
  
  
• George Reisman
  • Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics — the clearest and most comprehensive contemporary defense of the capitalist economic system; see also the author's site
  
  
• Ludwig von Mises
  • Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis — devastating critique of socialism and demonstration of why it always must and will fail
  
  
• Henry Hazlitt
  • Economics in One Lesson — explains why minimum wage laws, price controls, tariffs, taxes, and inflationary policies have failed to provide the social justice and economic progress promised by leftists and statists

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About the Society for the Advancement of Individual Rights

• increase understanding of the concept of individual rights in Switzerland;
• promote analysis of social, economic, and political problems in terms of freedom and limited government;
• suggest policies upholding individual rights;
• support new intellectuals who will further develop capitalist theories and practice; and
• provide ammunition to those who fight against statists of all colours.

• meetings of members;
• proselytism;
• seeding libraries with pro-capitalist literature;
• letters to editors;
• discussions with guests;
• debates with anti-capitalists;
• linking up with similar groups in Switzerland and other countries; and
• the publication of pamphlets.