Equal is Unfair by Don Watkins

Equal is Unfair by Don Watkins

We ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.

But what if that narrative is wrong? What if the real threat to the American Dream isn t rising income inequality but an all-out war on success?

In this timely and thought-provoking work, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook reveal that almost everything we ve been taught about inequality is wrong. You ll discover:

why successful CEOs make so much money and deserve to
how the minimum wage hurts the very people it claims to help
why middle-class stagnation is a myth
how the little-known history of Sweden reveals the dangers of forced equality
the disturbing philosophy behind Obama s economic agenda.

The critics of inequality are right about one thing: the American Dream is under attack. But instead of fighting to make America a place where anyone can achieve success, they are fighting to tear down those who already have. The real key to making America a freer, fairer, more prosperous nation is to protect and celebrate the pursuit of success not pull down the high fliers in the name of equality.

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.

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ISBN 13	9781250084446
ISBN 10	125008444X
Title	Equal is Unfair
Author	Don Watkins
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2016-03-29
Number of pages	258
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