22 October 2012
Article on Ayn Rand in the Economist
The Economist of 20 - 26 October 2012 has an article called Ayn Rand: Who's shrugging now? Sub-headed: The individualist philosopher has fans in some unlikely countries
The article reports that the movie Atlas Shrugged Part I cost $8 million and earned less than $5 million. Atlas Shrugged Part II was funded with $20 million and it is hoped it will earn $10 million.
Ed Hudgins of the Atlas Society says they have 11,000 non-American monthly visits to the Atlas Society website now, which is up from 7,000 two years ago. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute says their website's visitors are mostly from Britain, Canada, India, and Scandinavia.
Excluding English speakers, Swedes are the leading "Ayn Rand" searchers on Google. A free-market think-tank in Stockholm named Timbro has sold 30,000 copies of Ayn Rand's books since 2005, which compares very well to sales of 90,000 copies in Britain with six times the population. Despite this, when Annie Loof, the enterprise minister called Rand "one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century", she was given a very hard time about it.
After the U.S. and Canada, India leads the world in English-language searches on topics relating to Ayn Rand. There is a massive market in pirated copies of her books in India, according to Barun Mitra of the Liberty Institute, an Indian think-tank.
The article closes by noting that Ayn Rand's books outsell those of Karl Marx by a factor of 16.
The article reports that the movie Atlas Shrugged Part I cost $8 million and earned less than $5 million. Atlas Shrugged Part II was funded with $20 million and it is hoped it will earn $10 million.
Ed Hudgins of the Atlas Society says they have 11,000 non-American monthly visits to the Atlas Society website now, which is up from 7,000 two years ago. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute says their website's visitors are mostly from Britain, Canada, India, and Scandinavia.
Excluding English speakers, Swedes are the leading "Ayn Rand" searchers on Google. A free-market think-tank in Stockholm named Timbro has sold 30,000 copies of Ayn Rand's books since 2005, which compares very well to sales of 90,000 copies in Britain with six times the population. Despite this, when Annie Loof, the enterprise minister called Rand "one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century", she was given a very hard time about it.
After the U.S. and Canada, India leads the world in English-language searches on topics relating to Ayn Rand. There is a massive market in pirated copies of her books in India, according to Barun Mitra of the Liberty Institute, an Indian think-tank.
The article closes by noting that Ayn Rand's books outsell those of Karl Marx by a factor of 16.
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