by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 5, 2017 | Economics & The Economy
Science Proves Ayn Rand Wrong About Altruism and Laissez-Faire Economics – Evonomics Human Nature By Denise Cummins Evolution clearly shows how altruism trumps selfishness. In a previous article, I described the disastrous outcomes of two real-world attempts to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 26, 2017 | Economics & The Economy
Ayn Rand vs. Anthropology – Evonomics Human Nature Did natural selection favor individualists or altruists? By Eric Michael Johnson Black-and-white colobus monkeys scrambled through the branches of Congo’s Ituri Forest in 1957 as a small band of Mbuti...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 12, 2017 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Why Ayn Rand Was Wrong about Altruism, Selfishness, Evolution, and Human Nature – Evonomics Human Nature By Eric Michael Johnson Rand would be surprised by the new science of selfishness and altruism “Every political philosophy has to begin with a theory...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 12, 2016 | • Politics
Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? This piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com. If you have any doubts that the phenomenon of Donald Trump was a long time a’coming, you have only to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 28, 2011 | What I'm Reading
Politics Late news this afternoon,…Herman Cain is done, stick a fork in him. Herman Cain Denies New Affair Allegation – ABC News Breaking: Herman Cain may be sunk | The Zingularity First Read – Cain denies new allegation of affair Jeffrey Sachs:...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 5, 2011 | Quotations, Memes, & Lessons From Life
I stumbled adolescence this quote about Ayn Rand and her ideology of Objectivism in a critique by Michael Gerson of the failed movie Atlas Shruged for the Washington Post. “The Objectivist ethics, in essence,” said Rand, “hold that man exists for his...
