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Interview: George Gilder on Knowledge and Power

This article, published by PJ Media, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: “Wealth is essentially the accumulation of knowledge,” George Gilder tells me in our new interview. “It requires that government get out of the way, that government not be a noisy force in the economy, distracting entrepreneurs from their creative purposes toward government goals and Read More ›

What Inspires Me

This article, published by LinkedIn, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: My father read the interview with George Gilder in that August 1981 issue, which impressed him. Gilder had written Wealth and Poverty, a book Ronald Reagan was photographed with, along with giving it to members of his cabinet. Gilder would go on to become Ronald Reagan’s most-quoted living Read More ›

Is Capitalism Based on Greed – George Gilder author of Knowledge and Power

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 ›

Gilder’s Triumph: Knowledge And Power

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 ›

The Essential George Gilder Explains How Economies Work

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 ›

Skousen Cafe: The Rise of Interest Rates: What it Really Means

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 ›

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Book cover of Knowledge and Power by George Gilder

Knowledge and Power

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 ›

George Gilder Thankfully Returns, Bearing Knowledge And Power

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 ›

A No-Amortization Teaser Mortgage on the Economy

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 ›