IN PURSUIT OF WEALTH: THE MORAL CASE FOR FINANCE
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Yaron Brook Yaron Brook is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and host of The Yaron Brook Show. He travels extensively as ARI’s spokesman. Brook can be heard weekly on The Yaron Brook Show, which airs live on the BlogTalkRadio podcast and on TheBlaze Radio Network. He is also a frequent guest on na- tional radio and television programs. 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. He served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence and earned a BSc in civil engineering from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, 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 fi- nance professor at Santa Clara University, and in 1998, he cofounded BH Equity Research, a private eq- uity and hedge fund manager, of which he is managing founder and director. Brook serves on the boards of the Ayn Rand Institute, the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and CEHE (Center for Excellence in Higher Education), and he is a member of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Mont Pelerin Society.
Don Watkins Don Watkins, a former fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, is director of education at the Center for In- dustrial Progress. He is the author of RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Re- liance. He is also co-author with Yaron Brook of Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against In- come Inequality and of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government.
Raymond C. Niles Raymond C. Niles, a former Wall Street executive, is currently a PhD candidate in economics at George Mason University. Over a Wall Street career that spanned sixteen years, he worked as a stock analyst at Citigroup, Schroders, and Goldman Sachs, and as an investment manager. Niles is an expert in business cycle theory and monetary policy. He holds an MBA in finance and economics from New York University.
Doug Altner Doug Altner was an analyst and instructor at the Ayn Rand Institute between 2011 and 2014.
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