Atlas Shrugged

A statue presides Rockefeller Center in New York. It's called Atlas Shrugged.

Beyond its power as an icon, its strength lays in its meaning.

In 1957, Ayn Rand published a novel called Atlas Shrugged.
The author describes the clash of two different views to make a evolve a society, to generate wealth, to unleash productivity, grasping a dual approach philosophic as well as economic.

Regarding the economy, It holds that State interventions on economy (comunism, fascism, socialism) are flaw, political class is rotten and needs to be flushed away to allow higher rates of growth and expansion. It's useless, It exploits and interferes with personal work made by individuals by taking benefits from its efforts.

Business people, scientific researchers, inventors and artist weighs the world on its shoulders and represent the true leadership in society, who are the heros on the novel.

In the philosophical approach, It presents a collective altruist system society as an error. The base of a healthy and prosperous society has to be connected with independent productive elements. A successful society is settled down on allow, encourage and reward individual achievements.

It sustains that Personal happiness is attached to freedom.
Private property ownership must be respected because it is the result of what individuals have earned.
Capitalism will allow individuals to live up to their contribution to the economy.

The book, faces a hypothetical situation where all this people who really hold up the society would decide to go on stike. They hide away to prove they're the true engines of society and to show what would happen it they'd be away.

In raised a lot of controversial.

Its impact is still nowadays alive due the fact of that It shook society in a way it hadn't been done before. It triggered questions, It changed some thoughts and feelings among people about how economy and society shall be risen and ruled.

Many people in the world, specially in US are keen on this theory.

This is clearly now on my book list from now on.