Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race

n outrageous manifesto that condemns retirement, Zen retreats, and making everyone feel like a winner

 

People think that downtime will make them happy. Some even dream about getting out of the rat race for good. But Todd Buchholz a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning Harvard instructor, hedge fund director, and coproducer of a Tony Award winning hit Broadway show proves that kind of thinking dead wrong. Interweaving entertaining stories and cutting-edge research from neuroeconomics to evolutionary biology to Renaissance art to General Motors, Buchholz draws the counterintuitive yet wholly convincing conclusion that competition has not only made us taller and smarter, it's what humans love and need. Anyone who loves Ayn Rand and hates big government will embrace this witty and provocative book.