He’s written a book largely to counter the misguided and often belligerent assertions by the “Occupy Wall St.” crowd, and wants to fast-track its publication in  order for it to have an impact on the hearts and minds of citizens in time to impact the 2012 elections.

You can check out the site for his book, entitled Superwealth, and consider pledging support and receive a copy of this book written by a talented, thoughtful, and passionate advocate for individual freedom.

As Max describes this book:

If The New York Times can trot out billionaires with guilt complexes, maybe someone out there will listen to a middle-class guy with a well-considered, well-researched case for why we should:

1. Stop worrying about The Gap,

2. Understand the true nature of wealth and poverty,

3. Stop demonizing the wealthy,

4. Focus on how best to help the poor, and

5. Learn to celebrate wealth creation.

With SUPERWEALTH, I have made an unapologetic case for the rich, their riches and the good they do in the world. I also offer some of their secrets on how they got that way… And who knows? I may get rich myself one day. It starts with abandoning legacy publishing. It all starts with you.

Progressives today say people should come before profits. Now in a privilege-ridden corporate state, that’s a worthy goal, though Progressives have no clue how to achieve it. How nice it would be if they were equally committed to putting people before bureaucracy. Here they fall down rather badly because their signature ideas would subordinate regular people to the dictates of the power structure.

And as a challenge to those progressives cheering on the “occupation” of Wall Street and even privately-owned car dealerships, Richman poses this question:

What would happen to an Occupy Wall Street-style protest against some big State project initiated by Barack Obama?

 Any bets on how fast those progressives would change their tune about the people’s right to dissent?

As Sheldon Richman points out in this column,however, the free market’s hand prints are nowhere near the BP incident.

Take the oil spill in the Gulf. Market opponents are having a field day. They say this finally demonstrates the need for government to run things. Private firms can’t be trusted.

But it looks more like government can’t be trusted. The central government is, in law and in fact, the owner of the part in the Gulf where BP drilled for oil. (I didn’t say it was the legitimate owner.) The owner leased its property to a private company, BP, with a bad safety record (though a good one for sucking up to the environmentalist establishment and bureaucrats) and issued permits for the drilling operation. It then failed to keep a sharp eye on what BP and subcontractors Transocean and Halliburton were doing to its property. That might have something to do with the fact that government regulators don’t have the sort of relationship to “their” property that real private owners do, and they can always be counted on to get friendly with those they regulate. The Minerals Management Service in the Interior Department has a special conflict of interest: It makes money off the drilling it permits and regulates. Thus it could benefit from decisions that are bad for the public.

So what failed here, the market or the State? The call isn’t even close. The free market was nowhere near the scene. It has an airtight alibi. It didn’t exist.