pretty good? that's a pretty good endorsement I guess.
Have you read Calumet K, Ayn Rand suggested it as a good read. From the early 20th century. Also, The Driver from the late 19h century (so-so writing). I have spent time recently thinking about this and it's hard to come up with one. vinay's novel, Frankenstein Candidate is about a billionaire turned politician who is moral. I can can come up with more movies.

I know this has been discussed, but I hope some authors do some children's books along these lines. I am always wondering if I'll have to start trying to come up with some stories to read my kids to teach them the morals and values I believe in.

The film Sabrina. The original, starring Humphrey Bogart, NOT the Harrison Ford remake!

Try my book "iIn Pursuit of Manufacturing Excellence-The Signicast Story". It is a true story about a person who followed Ayn Rand's principles and built a hugely successful company. You can buy the book on Amazon or my web site www.terrylutz.net

Jerry Pournelle - "High Justice" is one of my favorites.

Try my just published book, The Golden Pinnacle. Here's the link to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Golden-Pinnacl...

The novelist/screenwriter James Clavell was an advocate for capitalism and free markets, which comes across in his work.
He wrote a series of novels, best known is Shogun, which is about an individual using his wits against the traditions of the samurai and the "politics" of Jesuit traders. Unusually, the TV version is as good as the novel.
TaiPan was about the establishment of the Hong Kong colony (though I don't recommend the movie version).
His first novel "King Rat" was about his experience in PoW camp, with a microcosm of a free market economy (ie. black market) running inside the camp. Its also a good (1965) B&W movie (overdue for a re-make!)

"Iron Fist - The Lives of Carl Kiekhaefer"

at

"http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Fist-L ives-Carl-Kiekhaefer/dp/0945903049"

Peruse the books about Steve Jobs, the microcomputer revolution.

A parable: At one time America had a strong economy, all rejoiced, and politicians started to promise, promise, promise (spend, spend, spend). Over time the government spending required much more revenue but the politician didn't want to level with the voters that taxes were going to have to be raised to pay for the government provided services ("Guns and Butter"). Thus backroom deals were made under the "Trade Deal" banner so that a foreign country would partner with the American government agreeing to buy its debt in return for "free trade" that allowed cheaper products to flood the American market (the foreign country collects the dollars on the sales to America then turns around to buy T-Bills thus funding the government spending). The first partner was Japan, then Mexico and Canada, then China. Over the course of those 4 decades the result was that many American factories shut down and some American companies went overseas to compete on price. All the while the politician yelled and screamed about the evil businessman who was killing the American economy by moving jobs to other countries. Most Americans who were educated in Public Schools where no Critical Thinking or Finance History are taught believed the politician that the evil businessman was responsible all the while the government continues its promise of more and more spending ("Guns and Butter") until the American economy is destroyed and the correction comes.

You might want to try some of the books by the author Terry Goodkind. These are Sci Fi fantasy and not the typical kind of book discussed here but Terry is very much a Randian. In fact I have seen several people complain about his obvious politics on Sci Fi boards. The Sword of Truth is the series I am thinking of as I haven't gotten around to more of his writing yet.

Ayn Rand has written extensively on how unfairly reviled businessmen are. Every time I put forth an e-mail or Facebook squib on the subject, I get many responses from business people thanking me and others who express wonder at why no one has ever written positive things about them.

I'm writing a book myself, but that's long away. There's some good short stories:
The Little Red Hen (come on, if you haven't heard this one...)
and another good one (though not about business) is "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

Have you read The Girl Who Owned A City? This title does come with a caveat - I haven't read it in 15 years and mostly remember how upset it made people who deserved to be upset by it.

Milton Friedman would say, Hong Kong... :)

Edward Younkins is writing a book on how business is perceived in American literature. He has been posting some of his essays on "Rebirth of Reason." Among them, so far, have been:

Sometimes a Great Notion:
Henry Hazlitt's Time Will Run Back
Glengarry Glen Ross
Cash McCall
Executive Suite
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
The Rise of Silas Lapham
King Vidor's An American Romance

See his review of Cash McCall here:
http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Youn...

It wasn't so much big business she endorsed, as the idea of "business" v. "government enterprise," or business toadying to the government, hat in hand, for subsidies, special favors, and the like.

Her businessman heroes were sole proprietors, except for Dagny, the key executive at Taggart Transcontinental, and Midas Mulligan and Hugh Akston, the two shareholders of the Mulligan Tobacco Company--the *only* venture in Atlantis with more than one man at the helm. And even then I never got clear whether Mulligan Tobacco was a joint-stock corporation, an LLC, or simply a partnership.