Praise for Free Market Revolution
“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
Editor-in-chief, Forbes
“Free Market Revolution is must-reading for an age in which the government seems to be treating Atlas Shrugged not as a warning, but as a how-to manual.”
Glenn Reynolds
Founder, Instapundit
“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
CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., host of the Peter Schiff Show on www.SchiffRadio.com, and author of The Real Crash: America’s Coming bankruptcy—How to Save Yourself and Your Country
“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
Founder, Mallory Factor, Inc., and Professor of International Politics at The Citadel
“This book is a must read for anyone concerned about the demonization of capitalism and deification of collectivism. Yaron Brook and Don Watkins meld philosophy with practicality in their cogent analysis of how Ayn Rand’s moral defense of capitalism can bring down the limitless growth of government and restore its original, intended purpose—protection of individual rights.
“Changing the trajectory of the country calls for a long and intense fight with very steep odds against victory. But the concept of the Free Market Revolution, celebrating the individual pursuit of rational, long-term self interest as a virtue, provides the arsenal for the assault. And Brook and Watkins give a battle plan of surefire approaches to limit, and then eliminate, even such massive incursions as the government’s takeover of healthcare.”
Jim M. Kilts
Former CEO of Gillette Company
“The most important issue in our society today is the morality of capitalism. Free Market Revolution lays bare how capitalism is the only economic system consistent with man’s nature as a thinking being who must act in his long term rational self-interest to survive and prosper. This is an important book which integrates philosophical ideas with their real world consequences.”
John A. Allison
Retired Chairman & CEO, BB&T Corporation
“Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government is very welcomed indeed. With clarity and courage Brook and Watkins present the basic teachings of free market economics, and place them within the context of Ayn Rand’s broader moral-philosophic system. As the problems with government intervention into the free market become more and more evident to larger segments of the population, Ayn Rand’s writing, especially her epic Atlas Shrugged, takes on a new life for a new generation.”
Peter J. Boettke
Professor of Economics, George Mason University
“Without free markets, freedom itself means little. America is drowning in fallacies about how free markets work and why they are morally right, but Brook and Watkins offer a lifeline we ignore at our peril.”
Lawrence W. Reed
President, Foundation for Economic Education
“[U]nlike other books purporting to defend capitalism this book presents an uncompromised moral defense based on self-interest and the profit motive. It shows that self-interest guided by reason is morally good and that capitalism cannot be defended morally without self-interest as its moral base. (Even Adam Smith defended self-interest based on collectivism–the good of society rather than individual rights). The book shows that the out-of-contol growth of government is based on the view that businessmen are viewed as ‘greedy’ and the people are ‘needy’ and therefore have the moral right to condemn business and have all their needs satisfied by government (which means: by their neighbors). The authors show that the creed of altruism (self-sacrifice) rather than being moral is immoral and destructive. Another virtue of this book is that it defends real (laissez-faire) capitalism, not a self-destructive mixed economy. Finally, the book shows specific steps that need to be taken to change our system from a mixed economy to a free (laissez-faire) economy. By giving capitalism a proper moral defense, this book demolishes every attempt by conservatives to ‘defend’ capitalism and and shows the way to attain true freedom and prosperity. This book, if taken seriously, can save us from economic suicide and usher in a new period of growth and prosperity.”
Edwin A. Locke
Dean’s Professor (Emeritus) of Motivation and Leadership at University of Maryland, College Park
“Free Market Revolution is a hard and honest look at the current culture of dependency, the malaise of a once motivated people, and the events that have culminated in our current fiscal crises and ever growing discontent with a system that repeatedly fails to promote growth and prosperity. . . and offers the only credible and moral (yes, I said moral) solution to our country’s woes. . . . Capitalists have been unable to argue the emotional talking points and the morality argument presented by the left, giving way to even more cries for social safety nets and spending by the government to pay for those ‘basic needs’. Until now.”
Conservative Daily News
Review by Michelle Ray
“[Free Market Revolution] is a joy to read. Even as it merges hefty philosophical arguments, detailed discussions of key economic concepts, and numerous historical examples, its light and breezy prose enables quick reading. . . . Free Market Revolution is well worth buying and reading–and more, it is worth promoting among Tea Party activists, business leaders, students, and anyone concerned with freedom and open to reason.”
The Objective Standard
Review by Ari Armstrong
“[A] full-throated, unapologetic case in favor of laissez-faire. Free Market Revolution. . .argues strongly and convincingly that the pursuit of self-interest—profit—is morally good and is the only path to progress and harmony. . . .
“John Adams famously wrote that the real American Revolution began long before the first shots were fired. It began, he said, when the people started thinking that they didn’t have to remain pawns of the British King and should run their own lives. Free Market Revolution could accomplish the same thing—a revolution in the minds of the people.”
The Freeman
Review by George Leef