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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government Hardcover – 28 Sep 2012

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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (28 Sept. 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0230341691
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230341692
  • Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 2.9 x 24.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,046,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Yaron Brook and Don Watkins...have done a good job of applying her approach to present-day conditions. Free Market Revolution is a critique of contemporary American from what Rand called an objectivist perspective.' - Daniel Ben-Ami, Financial Times

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Free Market Revolution argues that we must embrace a new way of thinking about capitalism and self-interest - one first spearheaded by popular US novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand

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5.0 out of 5 starsSorely needed moral defence of capitalism
By AynRandFanUK on 26 Nov. 2012
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This book explains why the US (and other Western economies) are in such dire straits and how to bring back prosperity. The remedy is radical: promote rational selfishness, which is the basis of profit, and condemn altruism, which is the basis of statism (Big Government).

The need for a moral approach to economics, and the case for rational selfishness, is coherently and persuasively made by the authors using an approach that integrates Ayn Rand's philosophy, with a deep understanding of economics. Demonstrating with example after example how altruism has undercut and misrepresented capitalism since its birth, the authors succeed in overturning the plethora of socialist myths and current day platitudes that will kill off business and the Western standard of living unless challenged.

Ayn Rand's pioneering approach to capitalism is ably built upon by Brook and Watkins with excellent new formulations such as the following: "The conventional picture of the free market is wrong. It is not a reckless, senseless, Wild West race to the bottom but a dynamic race to the top."

And in regard to our ever increasing regulation: "In the name of fighting selfishness, the state treats profit seekers like convicted criminals and vests 'public servants' with incredible amounts of arbitrary power."

And in conclusion: "There is nothing noble about altruism, nothing inspiring about the initiation of force, nothing moral about Big Government, nothing compassionate about sacrificing the individual to the collective."

This book is a rallying cry to businessmen everywhere and offers them a unique and unbeatable weapon in their fight against moral defamation, state control, and the poverty it produces.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent and passionate defence of individualism, freedom and capitalism
By Thomas H. Burroughes on 7 April 2013
Format: Hardcover
I have been an admirer of Ayn Rand and her defence of a free society since I read her books back in my early 20s (20-plus years ago!) and over the years, I have learned a number of different ways to think about how to frame the case for markets and liberty. While I have some reservations about aspects of Rand's views (I am not sure her defence of patents and copyrights succeeds fully, although I am still developing my views on this) and disagree on one or two other matters, her views command probably more admiration from me than they did when I first read her. She is one of those writers and thinkers where I often wonder, "what would he/she make of this?"

It is, however, well worth while to step back and reflect on the fact that a lot of people out there who are concerned about the direction of the West, the growth of the state and malaise that seems to afflict so many countries, haven't heard of Rand's ideas, of if they have, will be given a caricature some sort of monster who could not give a damn for the poor. Nothing could be further from the truth. This refugee from Soviet communism, who worked hard and for little money early in her new life in the USA, is a person whose message most needs to be heard by hard-working, ordinary people the world over.

Further, some people have never heard the case for rational, long-term self interest and the pursuit of happiness to its fullest, defended as a moral ideal. (Those of us who have been in the classical free market/liberal intellectual scene - like this reviewer - might tend to forget how much of a shock Rand's ideas are the first time they are encountered.) At best, many people probably think about the case for free markets and competition in largely consequentialist, utilitarian terms.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsThere are far better books than that on free market and individualism
By Alexandros Papadopoulos on 23 Oct. 2016
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Not what I expected.
Not what I expected at all.
I'm an Ayn Rand's enthusiast but this book didn't do her justice.
Maybe I was expecting for something far better.
The thing is, the book was a disappointment for me.
Nothing of the Ayn Rand's spirit in it.
Could be a decent free market book, but even the mention of Ayn Rand's name set the bar a lot lot higher that than.
Never got to finish it.
It was far less than I expected.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant
By NOC Engineer on 2 Nov. 2013
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Free Market Revolution is a brilliant outline of the reasons for the economic collapse and why our success is limited to our willingness to allow business to be free and the extent to which regulation damages the very people its supposed to protect.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book.
By park3r on 15 Aug. 2016
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A must read. We really do think we live in a free society. We don't. I found Yarron Brook from his interview with Dave Rubin on his Rubin Report show. It was a great interview. He made me look at things differently. I'm looking forward to reading some of Ayn Rands books next.
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