1.) why late 19th century America should be referred to by historians as
"The Inventive Period", not the "Gilded Age;"

2.) how capitalism and the Industrial Revolution from their earliest days
raised the living standards of the poor;

3.) how capitalism, far from causing child labor, eradicated it;

4.) how capitalism and the Industrial Revolution are the great cleansing
agents of the environment;

5.) the way in which the Industrial Revolution was from the very essence of
the Enlightenment,

6.) and the role of Scottish culture in its genesis;

7.) statism as the real cause of the moral evils ascribed to capitalism -
imperialism, war and slavery,

8.) and capitalism as the antidote to imperialism, war, and slavery.

DR. ANDREW BERNSTEIN - Specialties: Ayn Rand's novels, Objectivism,
business ethics Dr. Bernstein is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Pace
University and at the State University of New York at Purchase. He is the
author of three Ayn Rand titles for CliffsNotes: Atlas Shrugged, The
Fountainhead, and Anthem, and Penguin's "Teacher's Guide to The
Fountainhead." Dr. Bernstein is a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Ayn
Rand Institute and has spoken at many universities, including Harvard,
Stanford, and the University of Chicago. He is one of the world's greatest
authorities on Ayn Rand's novels. He taught literature for seven (7) years
at American Renaissance School in White Plains, NY. He is a highly prized
and frequent speaker at Objectivist conferences.