Dale B. Halling, author of Pendulum of Justice (with his wife Kaila) and The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur, has been asked to speak at the Atlas Summit 2014. The topic of his talk will be “Why did Rand Choose Inventor as Galt’s Profession?”
Abstract
Why did John Galt say “I was an inventor. I was one of a profession that came last in human history and will be first to vanish on the way back to the sub-human?” Today, there is an all-out attack on inventors. Effective property rights for inventors are relatively new, dating from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Currently, patent rights are under assault from all ends of the political spectrum and almost everywhere around the world. Was Rand wrong when she said, “Patents … are the legal implementation of the base of all property rights.”
Hank Rangar 