In the Wake Island of global economical downturn , sales onAyn Rand‘s authoritative libertarian apocalypse novelAtlas Shruggedtook a marked startle on Amazon over the past few weeks .
According to the UK Guardian :
As of yesterday , the book ’s 30 - day average rank on the internet site was 110 , far above its average rank of 542 over the last two old age . On 13 January it even briefly outperformed Barack Obama ’s wildly democratic work The Audacity of Hope . Yesterday it was in 55th place , between The Reader and a book on cultivating very small gardens .
The Guardian got this entropy fromTitleZ , a site that tracks popularity on Amazon .
Atlas Shrugged is perchance Rand ’s most famous novel , and lately was credited with inspiring the videogame Bioshock . When the reality ’s thriftiness begins to encircle the drainpipe , a mathematical group of industrialists and maven retreat into a outside mountain hideaway , using a scientific McGuffin to drain get-up-and-go out of inactive electrical energy . Without the broken individualist capitalistic type take part in beau monde , the world falls deeper into dystopian bureaucratism and finally the people demand that their evil collectivist leaders be ousted in favour of John Galt , the leader of the techno - industrialist enclave .
It ’s in reality a perfect novel for sour capitalists to be reading as Barack Obama demand the reign in the US and hints that the Sir Joseph Banks are soon to be nationalized , and government social programs expanded .
As the Guardian notes :
The book ’s peak sales daylight on Amazon seem to fit to major event in the attempted delivery of the saving , include the bailout of Northern Rock , the US determination to grease one’s palms shares in nine major banks , and the passing of Obama ’s stimulus bill . The Ayn Rand Centre for Individual Rights claims that US - blanket sales almost tripled over the first seven weeks of 2009 , compared with the same period in 2008 .
viaUK Guardian
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