Ideologies / Objectivist / Hank Rearden
Fiction§ The minds · fictional · United States · Steel magnate (fiction)
Hank Rearden
The right to one's own work
The industrialist who sheds his guilt.
Economic+58
SocialistMarket
Governance−90
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+20
TraditionalProgressive
Rand's steel magnate, whose arc from dutiful guilt to proud self-assertion dramatises the Objectivist case for the producer's moral right to his own work.
social
Learns to claim the moral right to his own achievement.
economic
Invents and produces; resents the looters who tax and shackle him.
governance
Comes to reject the regulatory state entirely.
Notable for
- Invents Rearden Metal (in-story)
- The producer's moral arc
- Foil to the 'looters'
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