Ah, I see, perhaps I am being unfair to her. I deliberately omitted Marx from the list for a reason - by your description, his views were somewhat similar to R

Ah, I see, perhaps I am being unfair to her. I deliberately omitted Marx from the list for a reason - by your description, his views were somewhat similar to Rand, not prescriptive, but descriptive. That is, if we just stop meddling with the human nature, we will arrive at society that looks like <whatever they wrote about>. Unfortunately, neither in Marx's or Rand's case, this is not what will happen. Both are utopian. But yeah, in my post, I should have probably used somebody who is more prescriptive of the society based on selfishness than Rand. I think somebody like Hayek would likely fit the bill better.