Personal, professional, whatever I guess. Who influenced whom etc? Were they colleagues, or student/mentor etc?
I heard that Greenspan contributed somehow to Atlas Shrugged, but I know no more. Jayson Funke Graduate School of Geography Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 4:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Greenspan & Rand On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Jayson Funke wrote: > Does anyone know the story behind the Alan Greenspan / Ayn Rand > relationship, other than the obvious Objectivist connection? You mean were they banging each other? That was pretty common in the Rand circle, no? But, as they say, I have no specific knowledge. He did go to her funeral. He wrote some pieces for her Objectivist newsletter. Three are included in the collection Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. One is a defense of the gold standard, and another denounced consumer protection laws as a statist abomination. Doug
