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Thu 03 Mar 2009New age for prophet of self-interest
A hymn to individualism, extreme self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism, Ayn Rand’s 1957 book ‘Atlas Shrugged’, is attracting a new set of followers in this age of uncertainty
SOME PRODUCTS DO comparatively well in times of recession: alcohol, chocolate, cinema tickets, cigarettes. But one surprise bestseller of the economic Armageddon is a decades-old science fiction novel about an imaginary economic Armageddon – popular now, its fans insist, because the collapse of civilisation it describes is on the verge of coming true.
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