Center on Wealth & Poverty
In this short clip bestselling author and influential thinker George Gilder looks at whether or not Capitalism is based on greed. In his new book Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World, Gilder synthesizes his analysis of technology and economics to build a new theory of capitalism. Read More ›
This article, published by Forbes, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Gilder, age 73, is now back with a new book, Knowledge and Power (Regnery), based on information theory. I will say that Gilder’s newest is his best–the book of the year, maybe of the new millennium. I’ll be referring to Knowledge and Power in coming issues. Meanwhile, buy it and read it Read More ›
This article, published by Forbes, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: With the publication of his masterful Wealth and Poverty in the early ‘80s, economic thinker and futurist extraordinaire George Gilder ascended to heights that most public intellectuals could only dream of. A hugely influential work covering how the individuals who comprise an economy grow, Gilder’s book even reached Read More ›
This article, published by Human Events, talks about Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder and an award that he has received: I’m happy to announce that George Gilder just has won the Leonard E. Read Book Award for his new book. This annual award is granted by FreedomFest to the “libertarian book of the year” which best advances the principles Read More ›
We’ve tried a government spending spree and learned it doesn’t work. Now is the time to rededicate our country to the pursuit of free market capitalism, before we’re buried under a mound of debt and unfunded entitlements. Read More ›
Ronald Reagan’s most-quoted living author — George Gilder — is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom, just when our economy desperately needs a new direction. America’s struggling economy needs a better philosophy than the college student’s lament: “I can’t be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook!” We’ve tried a Read More ›
This article, published by Forbes, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: George Gilder, whose new book publishes today, is one of the original pillars of Supply Side economics. As stated by Discovery Institute, which he co-founded, “Mr. Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute’s Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for Read More ›
EDITOR’S NOTE: Every day carries new stories of hackers and the damage they are doing to American businesses and government.“Pentagon Moving to Stem Hacker Attacks, the Associated Press reports. Our country’s defenses, power grid and business operations — and individuals — are at risk. It is not an over-statement to say that our country as a whole is at risk. Read More ›
Your “Debt and Growth” editorial (April 30) defending the Ken Rogoff-Carmen Reinhart thesis that the growth trajectory of U.S. debt comes with significant risk and curtailed economic growth is well-reasoned in the midst of contrary assertions by Paul Krugman and a myriad of Keynesians that an error in a Rogoff-Reinhart spreadsheet discredits their monumental book “This Time is Different.” That Read More ›
U.S. stock prices have just reached record highs, erasing the losses since the previous 2007 peak. But the U.S. economy as measured by the labor-force participation rate, which captures the percentage of working-age people in the labor force, has just dropped to a new 34-year low of 63.3 percent. Since the Great Depression, recessions have always been followed by strong Read More ›