How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis

by Adam Weiner

Literature 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501313118
• ISBN13: 9781501313110
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"