Economics

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place. –G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (1925) In the wake of the massive economic downturn pundits on the Left—owing to their Keynesian economic philosophy—urge us to “go out and Read More ›

This article, published by National Review, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: A demographic policy agenda would mean boldly calling for the repeal of numerous tax provisions, social programs, and court decisions that, over the last 40 years, have unraveled what George Gilder terms the sexual constitution of society, and that obstruct the creation of the wealth that really Read More ›

If you were to ask most Americans whether or not the United States has the lowest infant mortality, I suspect the large majority would give you a resounding “yes.” That’s why it’s startling to realize that the U.S. actually ranks 46th in the world. The top three countries are Singapore at 2.3 infant deaths per thousand, Sweden at 2.75 and Read More ›

Israel stands out from other nations in many ways, not least that its survival appears to depend on powerful but geographically very distant countries. That observation should lead Jews to wonder what makes friends of Israel feel as they do. America has been the country’s closet ally, while other Western countries showed less affection even before absorbing huge new Muslim Read More ›

If the August 2007 implosion of the subprime mortgage lending market signaled the impending burst of the housing asset bubble, the March 2008 collapse of the old-line investment banking firm Bear Stearns & Co. heralded the stock market crash and global financial crash of 2008. Cohan is an ex-investment banker who previously published a history of the investment-banking firm Lazard Read More ›

Do you understand why well-known economists, including Nobel Prize winners, are on opposite sides of the debate about the stimulus package and what should be done about the recession? Not only Americans, but people everywhere are confused, largely because the economists who are writing and speaking about what should be done have such fundamental disagreements. There are two main schools Read More ›

This article, published by BusinessWeek, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Author George Gilder featured the company in his 2000 book Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World. The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by Seeking Alpha, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: See, for instance, the recent report on entrepreneurism by the Kauffman Foundation, George Gilder’s “The Coming Creativity Boom” in the November 10 issue of Forbes, The rest of the article can be found here.

George Gilder has released a passionate new book about Israel, The Israel Test. Gilder, who is both an intense religious conservative and a tech guru, argues that support for the fullest claims of Israel is an essential moral test of the non-Jewish world’s ability to rise above resentments and envy. NewMajority has asked some friends and contributors to weigh in. First up, Read More ›

Discovery Senior Fellow George Gilder is briefly featured in the Acton Institute’s “Effective Stewardship” curriculum video “How Not to Help the Poor.” To learn more about the series, visit www.effectivestewardship.com.

The real source of all growth is human ingenuity and entrepreneurship, which often thrive in the worst of times—and are always surprising. Knowledge is about the past; entrepreneurship is about the future. In a crisis the world of expertise pulls the global economy ever deeper into the past, where accountant-economists ruminate on the labyrinthine statistics of leviathan trade gaps, tides Read More ›