Free Market Revolution · How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government by Brook, Yaron -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title page Copyright Contents Others 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

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