Yaron Brook is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute. He wears many hats at the institute and travels extensively as ARI’s spokesman.
Brook can be heard weekly on The Yaron Brook Show, which airs live on the BlogTalkRadio podcast. He is also a frequent guest on national radio and television programs.
An internationally sought-after speaker and debater, Brook also pens works that make one think. As coauthor, with Don Watkins, of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, Brook and Watkins argue that the answer to our current economic woes lies not in "trickle-down government" but in Rand's inspiring philosophy of capitalism and self-interest. Last year, Brook and Watkins released a new book, Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality, a book that shows 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. 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. He was a columnist at Forbes.com, and his articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily and many other publications.
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 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.
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.
Free Markets vs. The Regulatory State
Brigham Young Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- BYU341 E Campus Drive
Provo, UT 84602
Capitalism v. Socialism
Detroit Mercy Student Chapter
The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law651 E Jefferson Ave
Detroit, MI 48226
Panel 2: Is Economic Protectionism a Legitimate State Interest?
2019 National Student Symposium
W.P. Carey Great Hall, Beus Center for Law and Society (ASU Law)111 E Taylor Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Capitalism without Guilt
Arkansas-Fayetteville Student Chapter
University of Arkansas School of Law1045 W. Maple St.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Capitalism and the Rule of Law
Oregon Student Chapter
Knight Law Building, Room 1411515 Agate St.
Eugene, OR 97405
Is Social Justice Just? Why Income Inequality is Just [POLICYbrief]
Short video featuring Yaron Brook
Is income inequality just? In this POLICYbrief episode, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute...
Panel 2: Is Economic Protectionism a Legitimate State Interest?
2019 National Student Symposium
On March 15-16, 2019, the Federalist Society's student chapter at the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor...
Panel 2: Is Economic Protectionism a Legitimate State Interest?
2019 National Student Symposium
On March 15-16, 2019, the Federalist Society's student chapter at the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor...
Bake Your Own Pie: The Inequality of Value Creation
Short video featuring Yaron Brook
Does everyone deserve an equal slice of the pie? For decades, economists and politicians have...
Income Inequality: Is It Fair or Unfair?
Yale Student Chapter
The Yale Federalist Society presents a conversation and Q&A on income inequality. Is it fair...