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What’s the mystery that Free Market Revolution was written to solve? In this short video, co-author Yaron Brook describes the puzzle and indicates how his book answers it.

Since our book, Free Market Revolution, came out, Yaron and I have gotten a lot of requests for discussion and study questions. Well, here they are, below the fold.

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Jaana Woiceshyn has a positive review of Free Market Revolution in Capitalism Magazine.

Why does the government keep growing, why should we be concerned about it, and what to do about it? “Free Market Revolution” by Yaron Brook, Executive Director, and Don Watkins, a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute answers these questions in lucid, lively prose, peppered with several concrete examples from business and politics.  If you have ever pondered these questions or been alarmed by the continuing economic recession, the skyrocketing deficit, and the debt crisis in the United States—$16 trillion and counting—I urge you to read this book. It astutely describes the current economic, political, and moral mess of America—and offers a way out of it.

Whole thing here.

I’d like your input for a project I’m working on. If you have read our book, Free Market Revolution, let me know:

1. Did it teach you anything about how to defend capitalism?

2. Do you have any stories about how it helped you better defend capitalism, or about how FMR changed the mind of someone you know regarding capitalism (or some aspect of capitalism)?

3. How you would compare FMR to other books on capitalism (not including other Objectivist works)?

All answers are appreciated but the only ones I’ll be able to use for this project are those from people comfortable giving their real names.

You can reply in the comments or email me at dwatkins -at- aynrand -dot- org.

Last night I gave a new talk, “Why Businessmen Shouldn’t ‘Give Something Back,’” at Stanford. Hopefully I’ll have video of that in the near future. In the meantime, in case you missed it, here’s the talk I’ve been giving the last few months while promoting Free Market Revolution.