A New ARI Book: Profit Without Apology

The Ayn Rand Institute is pleased to announce the release of a new book: Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up for Business by Onkar Ghate and Don Watkins.

ARI’s CEO Tal Tsfany announced the book during his keynote talk at the Objectivist conference, OCON, in Boston on July 3.

From the back cover: “Profit Without Apology is a moral defense of business in a culture that treats financial success as guilt and profit as vice. It argues that businessmen — far from being exploiters — are the creators of modern life, and that their pursuit of profit is not something to hide or downplay, but to champion with pride. Challenging the dominant ethic of self-sacrifice, this book makes the case for a new moral ideal — one that recognizes production as a virtue, trade as justice, and the businessman as a moral hero.”

The book’s title essay by Watkins is a kind of manifesto for the Atlas Circle, an initiative of the Ayn Rand Institute, “created to stand up for business — and to empower business leaders to stand up for themselves.” The name “Atlas Circle,” Ghate writes in the book’s introduction, was chosen because the initiative is “rooted in Rand’s revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism,” dramatized in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged.