Has Anyone Read This Book - Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Posted by lmarrott 11 years, 12 months ago to Books
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I'm wondering if anyone has read this book and what their thoughts on it are.

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    Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 12 months ago
    From the Univesity of Texas library catalog:
    "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 government spending spree, and we've 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."
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
    It's on the list. Have read Wealth and Poverty and Telecosm. Followed him for years in Forbes. bit of an altruist-
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  • Posted by flanap 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Interesting that he is a founder of the Discovery Institute, which many folks I talk to have never heard of. I am a follower of Dr. Stephen Meyer's works myself and have known about it for a few years now.

    I would say that it is likely that Mr. Gilder is seeking to bridge the gap between being called a radical right-wing "fight-for-the-family" Christian right advocate and the left with such works as this. I should read it.
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  • Posted by lmarrott 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nah. I was going to add it to my to read list but wanted to see if anyone had already read it. So I will put it on my list of books to read and get to it eventually.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 12 months ago
    "George F. Gilder (born November 29, 1939) is an American writer, techno-utopian intellectual, Republican Party activist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a practical and moral case for capitalism during the early months of the Reagan Administration and made him President Reagan's most quoted living author. [1] In 2013, he wrote Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing Our World, which reformulated economics in terms of the information theory of Alan Turing and Claude Shannon.


    In the 1970s Gilder established himself as a critic of feminism and government welfare policies; he argued they eroded the "sexual constitution" that socialized men as fathers and providers. In the 1990s he became an enthusiastic evangelist of technology and the Internet through several books and his newsletter the Gilder Technology Report." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gild...

    OK... I am interested! I mean, given khalling's caveat above, he may be incomplete or incorrect on any or many points, but this certainly promises to be a challenging source of new ideas and perspectives.

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