[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":8},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-yaron-brook":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7],"Yaron Brook is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute, having previously served as its executive director from 2000 to 2017. An Israeli-American writer and Objectivist, he hosts The Yaron Brook Show, a podcast on philosophy, politics and economics.","With Don Watkins he wrote Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal Is Unfair and In Pursuit of Wealth, and he has spent two decades making the moral rather than the merely economic case for capitalism, on the argument that markets need defending as a matter of justice and not only of efficiency. The Yaron Brook Show carries the same case into daily commentary on politics, philosophy and economics.","He taught finance at Santa Clara University for seven years, where he was an award-winning professor, and co-founded the advisory firm BH Equity Research before leaving academia in 2000 to lead the institute. Born in Jerusalem in 1961, he had moved to the United States for an MBA and a doctorate in finance at the University of Texas at Austin.",1788062488122]