Introducing Ayn Rand

EDWARD W. YOUNKINS is professor of accountancy and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality at Wheeling University. He is the founding director of the university’s undergraduate program in political and economic philosophy and its master’s programs in business and accountancy. He is the author of many articles in accounting journals and in free-market-oriented publications. He has written or edited ten books including his trilogy of freedom and flourishing: Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise; Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists; and Flourishing and Happiness in a Free Society: Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics, and Ayn Rand's Objectivism.