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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government

A game-changing look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand’s bold defense of free markets can help us change course.  

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“Free Market Revolution will raise the ire of every statist, socialist and crony capitalist. Rand understood–as do the authors of this all-too-timely book–that free markets are, indeed, moral while Big Government is manifestly not.” –Steve Forbes

“A powerful and unapologetic case in support of capitalism. For those who think more government will solve our nation’s problems, Free Market Revolution will open your eyes. For those who can already see the light, it will sharpen your vision.”  –Peter Schiff

The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of Americans are alarmed by Big Government, but skeptical that anything can or will be done to stop the growth of the state. In Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rand’s legacy argue that the answer lies in her inspiring philosophy of capitalism and self-interest–a philosophy that more and more people are turning to for answers.

Here, Yaron Brook and Don Watkins explain how Rand’s ideas can solve a host of political and economic ills, including the debt crisis, inflation, anti-business regulation, and the swelling welfare state. And most important, they show how Rand’s philosophy can enable defenders of the free market to seize the moral high ground in the fight to limit government.

This is a fresh and urgent look at the ideas of one of the most controversial figures in modern history–ideas that may prove the only hope for the future.

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“Free Market Revolution is a potential game-changer. Brook and Watkins dismantle the myth that free markets are responsible for today’s ills, and they teach us how to take the moral high ground in the fight against Big Government. If there are any Occupiers left, this book should make them lay down their signs in surrender. Anyone who wants to understand why we have strayed so far from the Founders’ ideals, and how we can find our way back, should read this book.” –Mallory Factor

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In Free Market Revolution you will discover:

  • Why, no matter who we elect or which party is in charge, does government keep getting bigger?
  • Why do businessmen and free markets take the blame for every problem and every crisis?
  • Why, when a new government program is passed or a new control imposed, is it so hard to repeal?
  • Why is America suddenly talking about Ayn Rand, a writer who died thirty years ago?
  • Why have previous revolts against Big Government failed–and how can today’s Tea Party rebellion succeed?

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Table of Contents

 

  1. The Incredible Unshrinking Government
    The Wealth of Free Nations
    Why the Last Swing to the Right Failed
    Conclusion: The Situation Today
  2. Why Government Grows
    The Least Controversial Idea
    The Argument from Need and the Argument from Greed
    Conclusion: A Moral Crisis
  3. With Friends Like These . . .
    Free Marketers vs. the Market
    The Right’s Crusade for Big Government
    Conclusion: In Search of a Defense of “More”
  4. The 2008 Housing Meltdown: A Crisis that Government Built
    The Federal Reserve Spikes the Punch
    Housing Policy Made Things Worse
    Financial Regulation Made Things a Disaster
    The Unlearned Lessons
    Conclusion: Freeing the Unfree Market
  5. Rethinking Selfishness
    The Prisoner and the Producer
    A Package Deal
    Conclusion: Unpacking the Package Deal
  6. The Morality of Success
    It’s Hard to Be Selfish
    Principle 1: Rationality
    Principle 2: Productiveness
    Principle 3: Trade
    A New Concept of Selfishness
    The Evil of Self-Sacrifice
    Conclusion: The Only Way to Be Selfish
  7. The Business of Business
    The Businessman: Parasite or Producer?
    A Fellowship of Traders
    Conclusion: The Great Liberator
  8. The Nobility of the Profit Motive
    What It Shall Profit a Man
    Profitable Principles
    The Altruistic Attack on Business Success
    Conclusion: The “Public Good” Be Damned
  9. Selfishness Unleashed
    A Society of Producers
    Protecting the Profit Motive
    Laissez-Faire
    Conclusion: Markets Are Moral
  10. The Dynamism of the Market
    The Division of Labor
    Prices
    Competition
    Innovation
    Government Intervention
    Conclusion: The Profit System
  11. The Regulatory State and Its Victims
    Protecting the Consumer
    Protecting the Worker
    Punishing the Producer
    Conclusion: Answering the Argument from Greed
  12. The Immoral Entitlement State
    Before the Entitlement State
    Born of Ideology
    The Entitlement State’s War on the Rational and Productive
    From Entitlement Morality to Entitlement Mentality
    Conclusion: Answering the Argument from Need
  13. You Are Not Your Brother’s Health Care Provider
    The Cause: How Government Made Health Care Inefficient and Expensive
    The Cure: Toward a Free Market in Health Care
    Conclusion: Freeing the Unfree Health Care Market
  14. Stopping the Growth of the State
    Why Only Rational Selfishness Will Do
    The Basic Contradiction
    Ayn Rand and the Free Market Revolution