Arthur C Brooks
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Now a National Bestseller.
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American, creating a "culture of contempt"-the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out...
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¿Qué hacer ante un escenario en el que los políticos parecen decididos a dividirnos y nos vemos abocados a una crispación permanente debido al bombardeo de mensaje al que nos someten las redes sociales y los medios de comunicación? ¿Realmente estamos condenados a vivir en esta "cultura del desprecio" a la que nos hemos ido acostumbrando, a un modus operandi en el que no estar de acuerdo se asocia no sólo a discrepar, sino a la descalificación...
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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,...
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The New York Times bestselling author says America is being ripped apart by bitterness and contempt, fomented by public bullies and self-interested leaders-but following the plan in this book, we can fight back to reunite the nation around principles of respect, kindness, and dignity. Battered by partisan rancor and caustic public discourse, America is tearing at the seams. Across the political spectrum, we are told by divisive leaders that our ideological...
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Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as simply a 'lesser evil' whose faults are preferable to those of social democracy or communism. But what if the conventional understanding of capitalism as corrupt and unprincipled is...