[vezzy-fnord]

Rand (along with a couple of other women like Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) was instrumental in introducing a lot of people to the free market ethos, but no. She was never a good philosopher, nor a scholar. Her works are probably best understood as the total antithesis of Marxism-Leninism, the crossfire of which she was caught up in at the time until her emigration to the United States.

Rand is a relic and has largely been repudiated by far superior scholars (such as Murray N. Rothbard) who have since made most of her work deprecated.