Selfishness aids survival but requires balance in society. While modern life rewards both selfish and cooperative behaviors, ...

Another graduate of Leningrad State University, Alisa Rosenbaum—better known by her nom de plume Ayn Rand ... Russia." Rand's 1964 essay collection The Virtue of Selfishness, composed ...

Yet the belief system constructed by Ayn Rand, who died 30 years ago today ... and her nonfiction (such as The Virtue of Selfishness) she explained a philosophy she called Objectivism.