# John Hospers Compares John Ross's Unintended Consequences and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged **URL:** **By** John Hospers **Published:** July 17, 1996 --- John Hospers was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was also the first Libertarian Party Presidential candidate in 1972. In this lecture from an International Society of Individual Liberty conference in 1996, Hospers compares John Ross's novel _Unintended Consequences_ with Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_. Hospers was a personal friend of Rand during her lifetime. He passed away in 2011.