Free market revolution : how Ayn Rand's ideas can end big government /
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| Author / Creator: | Brook, Yaron. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. |
| Description: | xiii, 251 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8920072 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Problem
- 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 Greed and the Argument from Need
- Conclusion: A Moral Crisis
- 3. With Friends Like These ...
- Free Marketers versus 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
- Part II. The Solution
- 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
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
