# Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

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- Book: [Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal](https://www.bookquiver.com/ayn-rand/capitalism-the-unknown-ideal) ([Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ayn-rand/capitalism-the-unknown-ideal.md))
- Authors: [Ayn Rand](https://www.bookquiver.com/ayn-rand), [Nathaniel Branden](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-branden), [Alan Greenspan](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-greenspan), [Robert Hessen](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-hessen)
- Publisher: Signet
- ISBN: 978-04-5114-795-0
- Pages: 416
- Published: 1986-07-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. The foundations of capitalism are being...