Ayn Rand, fountainhead of economic thought for Paul Ryan, already subject of an academic boom

Ayn Rand, fountainhead of economic thought for Paul Ryan, already subject of an academic boom, News & Observer, Aug. 17, 2012. A certain selfish, dead and enduringly controversial novelist was enjoying an unusual boom in university classes thanks to tens of millions of dollars in grants from a Winston-Salem-based bank. Economics professor Douglas Pearce wrote the application that won NCSU a BB&T grant in 2007. The idea, he said, was to bolster instruction in the liberal arts side of economics, something that his department felt it needed.