The book talks about Ayn Rand a bit, but spends more time discussing the damage done to altruistic ideals by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and much of Freu

The book talks about Ayn Rand a bit, but spends more time discussing the damage done to altruistic ideals by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and much of Freud's work. Freud considered altruism and philanthropy a form of masochistic pathology.