{"product_id":"how-bad-writing-destroyed-the-adam-weiner-9781501313110","title":"How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In \u003ci\u003eHow Bad Writing Destroyed the World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A congressional investigation placed the blame for the financial crisis on Alan Greenspan and his deregulatory policies-his attempts, in essence, to put Ayn Rand's Objectivism into practice. Though developed most famously in Rand's \u003ci\u003eAtlas Shrugged\u003c\/i\u003e, Objectivism sprouted from the Rational Egoism of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's \u003ci\u003eWhat Is to be Done? \u003c\/i\u003e(1863), an enormously influential Russian novel decried by the likes of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov for its destructive radical ethics. In tracing the origins of Greenspan's ruinous ideology, \u003ci\u003eHow Bad Writing Destroyed the World \u003c\/i\u003ecombines literary and intellectual history to uncover the danger of hawking \"the virtues of selfishness,\" even in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Weiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501313118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501313110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/08\/2016","brand":"Adam Weiner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935195070719,"sku":"9781501313110","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d20ac99e-3805-418e-9d14-c0587c316bad.jpg?v=1681418407","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-bad-writing-destroyed-the-adam-weiner-9781501313110","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}