Yaron Brook Explained

Yaron Brook
Native Name:ירון ברוק
Native Name Lang:heb
Birth Date:23 May 1961
Birth Place:Jerusalem, Israel
Occupation:Chairman of the Board, Ayn Rand Institute
Citizenship:American, Israeli
Education:Technion (BS)
UT Austin (MBA, PhD)
Movement:Objectivism
Notableworks:In Pursuit of Wealth
Equal Is Unfair
Free Market Revolution
Why Businessmen Need Philosophy
NEOCONSERVATISM
Winning the Unwinnable War
Website:yaronbrookshow.com

Yaron Brook (Hebrew: ירון ברוק; born May 23, 1961[1]) is an Israeli-American Objectivist writer who is the current chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), where he was executive director from 2000 to 2017. Prior to joining ARI, he was a finance professor at Santa Clara University, where he taught for seven years.[2]

Biography

Yaron Brook was born in Jerusalem and raised in Haifa.[3] His parents were Jewish socialists from South Africa. When he was sixteen, a friend lent him a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, leading him to embrace Objectivism.[4] After graduating from high school, he served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence (1979–1982) and then earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering in 1986 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.[5]

Career

Brook became an associate of leading Objectivist intellectuals, such as philosopher Leonard Peikoff, and in 1994, he co-founded Lyceum International, a company that organized Objectivist conferences and offered distance-learning courses. In 2000, he left Santa Clara University to succeed Michael Berliner as President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, which was then located in Marina del Rey, California. In 2002, ARI relocated to Irvine, California.[6]

Views and opinions

Politics and economics

Brook is an outspoken proponent of laissez-faire capitalism. In appearances on CNBC[7] and several articles[8] and speeches, he has defended the rights of corporations and businessmen and upheld the virtues of capitalism. In a January 7, 2007, editorial in USA Today, he defended multimillion-dollar CEO pay packages against the attempt by the government to regulate them.[9] In a 2010 interview, Brook called the efforts of Democrats to raise taxes on multi-millionaires "totally immoral." He criticized George W. Bush for signing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which regulates corporate accounting practices.[10] He has also argued that antitrust laws are "unjust and make no sense ethically or economically."[11]

Brook is co-author, with Don Watkins, of the book Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.[12] “What we care about is whether individuals are able to rise by merit—and the fact is that many of the policies the inequality critics say will improve mobility actually make rising by merit much harder,” they argue in the book.[13]

Israel

On Zionism, Brook argued that "Zionism fused a valid concern—self-preservation amid a storm of hostility—with a toxic premise: ethnically based collectivism and religion."[14]

Islam

In 2018, a public event featuring Brook and Carl Benjamin, a controversial YouTuber known as "Sargon of Akkad", as speakers was protested by masked activists.[15] Brook has claimed that "Islamic ideology" is not compatible with the moral values of the contemporary Western world.[16]

Published works

Books

Other

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yaron Brook. Facebook.com. March 31, 2015. January 11, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160111202455/https://www.facebook.com/ybrook/info. live.
  2. News: Stewart . James B. . 2017-07-13 . As a Guru, Ayn Rand May Have Limits. Ask Travis Kalanick. . en-US . The New York Times . 2024-01-03 . 0362-4331.
  3. News: 'You don't fight a tactic' . Orit . Arfa . The Jerusalem Post . July 12, 2007 . January 11, 2016 . February 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160213145907/http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/You-dont-fight-a-tactic . live .
  4. Web site: Atlas came to Irvine. The Orange County Register. March 31, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080615164032/http://www.ocregister.com/news/brook-rand-institute-1884783-self-money. June 15, 2008.
  5. Web site: Yaron Brook . Ayn Rand Institute . August 18, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112025230/http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5151 . November 12, 2013 . dead .
  6. News: Ayn Rand Institute to Move to Orange County . Vivian . Letran . June 7, 2002 . Los Angeles Times . August 18, 2009 . October 16, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121016032049/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/07/local/me-rand7 . live .
  7. Web site: yaron brook – CNBC . Search.cnbc.com . March 31, 2015 . April 2, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402171015/http://search.cnbc.com/main.do?keywords=yaron+brook&target=video&x=0&y=0 . live .
  8. Web site: Paralyzing America's Producers . Alex . Epstein . Yaron . Brook . October 22, 2002 . Ayn Rand Institute . October 2, 2009 . May 25, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110525235101/http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&page=NewsArticle&id=5455 . live .
  9. News: Pay is company's prerogative . Yaron . Brook . January 7, 2007 . USA Today . 19A . September 18, 2017 . June 29, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629105627/http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070108/oppose08.art.htm . live .
  10. Web site: The cost of the 'ethical' assault on honest businessmen . Alex . Epstein . Yaron . Brook . July 14, 2003 . October 2, 2009 . June 5, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063142/http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0703/0703businessassault.htm . live .
  11. News: Capitalism and Business Ethics: Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute . Washingtonpost.com . July 19, 2000 . October 2, 2009 . October 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121024211050/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/00/business/specials/brook0719.htm . live .
  12. Web site: Equal is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality . 2024-01-03 . The Ayn Rand Institute . en.
  13. Web site: New Book Argues ‘Equal is Unfair’ . 2024-01-03 . WTTW News . en.
  14. News: 'You don't fight a tactic' . Orit . Arfa . The Jerusalem Post . July 12, 2007 . January 11, 2016 . February 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160213145907/http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/You-dont-fight-a-tactic . live .
  15. Web site: 2018 . Masked protesters halt campus event featuring Israeli speaker . 2023-10-18 . The Jewish Chronicle.
  16. Web site: Cruse . Beth . 2022-04-01 . Police called as protesters 'blockade door' to lecture . 2023-10-18 . Bristol Live . en.

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