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Consuming Is Easy — Producing Is Hard

1,558 views · Published 17 January 2018 · 1:48 · Indexed 7 October 2026

Channel: Ayn Rand Institute · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

This short clip on the economic primacy of production is from a longer talk by Yaron Brook, chairman of the board of directors of the Ayn Rand Institute, discussing the morality of finance and why we should celebrate financiers. It was delivered on November 13, 2017 in London at the Annual Ayn Rand Lecture Series hosted by the Adam Smith Institute: https://youtu.be/iw4Ra-vXzA0?list=PLqsoWxJ-qmMvXXrHZlNU0cyvNABOIk2rK

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