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The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise
Arthur C. Brooks
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Description for The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise
Hardcover. From the President of the American Enterprise Institute, the follow-up to the hugely influential The Battle: a candid assessment of how mainstream America can take the philosophy of free enterprise and translate it into political action--restoring b Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPV. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 338.
Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions,by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding merit to redistributing wealth.In The Road to Freedom , American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks shows that this trend cannot be reversed through materialistic appeals about the economic efficiency of capitalism. Rather, free enterprise requires a moral defence rooted in the ideals of earned ... Read more
Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions,by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding merit to redistributing wealth.In The Road to Freedom , American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks shows that this trend cannot be reversed through materialistic appeals about the economic efficiency of capitalism. Rather, free enterprise requires a moral defence rooted in the ideals of earned ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465029402
SKU
V9780465029402
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About Arthur C. Brooks
Arthur C. Brooks is President of the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank in Washington, DC. He is the author of nine books, including The Battle, Gross National Happiness, and Who Really Cares. Until 2009, Brooks was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University. Previously, Brooks spent twelve years as a professional ... Read more
Reviews for The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise
George F. Will "It is true, but insufficient, to argue that free enterprise makes us better off. Arthur Brooks makes the indispensable point that it also makes us better. Having stumbled far down the road to serfdom, we are much in need of Brooks' trenchant case for a change of course." P. J. O'Rourke "America's tradition of being free provides ... Read more