In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance - Paperback

by Don Watkins (Author), Yaron Brook (Author)

In this new book, In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance, Yaron Brook and Don Watkins dispel the prevailing negative myths about finance and clearly lay out the industry's virtues within a moral framework. This ambitious book shows readers how we can reframe societal mores and end the vilification of financiers.

Author Biography

Yaron Brook is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and host of The Yaron Brook Show. He travels extensively as ARIs spokesman. Brook can be heard weekly on The Yaron Brook Show, which airs live on the BlogTalkRadio podcast and on TheBlaze Radio Network. An internationally sought-after speaker and debater, Brook also has published a number of books, including two with co-author Don Watkins: the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality. Brook is also contributing author to Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea; Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism; and Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution-As Told by the Thinkers and Doers Who Made It Happen. Brook was born and raised in Israel. In 1987, he moved to the United States where he received his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Texas at Austin; he became an American citizen in 2003. For seven years he was an award-winning finance professor at Santa Clara University, and in 1998, he cofounded BH Equity Research, a private equity and hedge fund manager, of which he is managing founder and director. Don Watkins Don Watkins, a former fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, is director of education at the Center for Industrial Progress. He is the author of RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance. He is also co-author with Yaron Brook of Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government.