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020			_a9781501313110
082			_a891.73309 _bWEI
100			_aWeiner, Adam
245			_aHow bad writing destroyed the world : Ayn Rand and the literary origins of the financial crisis
260			_bBloomsbury Academic, _c2016 _aNew York :
300			_a250 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b17.99 _cGBP _d107.10
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aLiterature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans decades and continents to reveal the surprising connections between the 2008-2009 financial crisis and a relatively unknown nineteenth-century Russian author. A congressional investigation placed the blame for the financial crisis on Alan Greenspan and his deregulatory policies-his attempts, in essence, to put Ayn Rand's Objectivism into practice. Though developed most famously in Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism sprouted from the Rational Egoism of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What Is to be Done? (1863), an enormously influential Russian novel decried by the likes of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov for its destructive radical ethics. In tracing the origins of Greenspan's ruinous ideology, How Bad Writing Destroyed the World combines literary and intellectual history to uncover "the danger of hawking the virtues of selfishness,"even in fiction.
650			_aRationalism in literature
650			_aRussian fiction
650			_aChto delatʹ? (Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich)
650			_aRand, Ayn
650			_aDostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
650			_aChernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich, 1828-1889
650			_aBlanquism
650			_aIshutinites
650			_a Nabokov
650			_a The Devils
650			_aIvanov, Ivan
650			_a Marx, Karl
650			_a Karakozov
650			_a Chernyshevsky
650			_a The Gift
650			_aOgarev, Nikola
650			_a People's will
650			_aObjectivism
650			_a Rational Egoism
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