Claim: Ayn Rand opposed control of economic policy by the state.
Evidence: In politics , she condemned the initiation of force as immoral , and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism , and instead supported laissez-faire capitalism , which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights.
In political science , statism is the belief that the state should control either economic or social policy , or both , to some degree.