George Gilder
description: an American investor, writer, and economist known for his views on technology and economics
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
by George Gilder · 16 Jul 2018 · 332pp · 93,672 words
education, addressed the UFM graduation ceremonies at Ibárgüen’s invitation in 2009 and received an honorary doctorate. UFM opened, for what it’s worth, a George Gilder Computer Center, attracting my attention. In June 2013, under Ibárgüen’s inspirational successor, Gabriel Calzada, UFM became the first university in the Americas to accept
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conserved: material resources have not changed since the Stone Age. All enduring economic advances come from the increase of knowledge through learning. About the Author GEORGE GILDER, one of the leading economic and technological thinkers of the past forty years, is the author of nineteen books, including Wealth and Poverty, Life after
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.” 3. C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949), 16–29. “Transposition” is the second essay. 4. George Gilder, Life after Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life (Knoxville, Tenn.: Whittle Communications, 1990); revised edition (New York: Norton, 1994). “We will discover
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. The source of the image of M&A unicorns and IPO gazelles is the financier-philosopher William Walton. Chapter 6: Google’s Datacenter Coup 1. George Gilder, “The Information Factories,” Wired, October 1, 2006. I originally made this trip as a contributing editor of Wired and much of the prose in the
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Page Rank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, 2011). 6. Kurzweil, How to Creat a Mind, 153. 7. George Gilder, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), 262–89. 8. Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future (New York: Simon
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team. Regardless of Szabo’s specific role, he is the most original and interesting thinker in the bunch, and his bitgold paper is prophetic. 6. George Gilder, Telecosm: The World after Bandwidth Abundance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 116–17. This Marc Andreessen riff was first published in Forbes ASAP as “The
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22, 2017, https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100. Chapter 22: The Bitcoin Flaw 1. George Gilder, “What Bitcoin can Teach,” in The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2016), 69–76. 2
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, 26–27, 34, 40–42, 54, 58, 66, 183 Z Zemecki, Robert, xi Zero to One, 189 Zuckerberg, Mark, 126, 224, 274 Copyright © 2018 by George Gilder All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy
Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
by George Gilder · 30 Apr 1981 · 590pp · 153,208 words
reasons, not just material ones. The abundances they create come about precisely because of capitalism’s moral foundations. This profound, basic understanding is what makes George Gilder’s Wealth & Poverty one of the great books of Western civilization, on par with Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and the late Jude
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, for their example and their love; and my wife, Nini, for giving me a reason and a way to live and for giving me Louisa. George Gilder Tyringham, Massachusetts July 20, 1980 NOTES Prologue 1 Richard A. Posner, The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2010), 321, and A Failure of
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Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change (New York: Basic Books, 1980), pp. 47–54 and passim. 11 Ibid., p. 49. 12 George Gilder, Naked Nomads: Unmarried Men in America (New York: Quadrangle/the New York Times Book Co., 1974), pp. 38–40. Detailed sources can be found in
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Research on Poverty Monograph Series (New York: Academic Press, 1977), p. 32 and passim. 5 Ibid. 6 George Gilder, Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America (New York: Basic Books, 1978), p. 188. 7 George Gilder, Sexual Suicide (New York: Quadrangle/the New York Times Book Co., 1973), rev. ed. (New York
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the observations in this chapter are based on two years of empirical investigation and analysis of welfare communities in New York and South Carolina in George Gilder, Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America (New York: Basic Books, 1978). 2 Martin Anderson, Welfare: The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in
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(New York: Academic Press, 1977), pp. 61–69. 5 Charles D. Hobbs, The Welfare Industry (Washington, DC: the Heritage Foundation, 1978), pp. 74–75. 6 George Gilder, Sexual Suicide (New York: Quadrangle/the New York Times Book Company, 1973); rev. edition (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), pp. 175–183. 7 Many researchers
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, The Galbraith Reader (Ipswich, MA: Gambit, 1977), passim. 3 Nathan Glazer, “Reform Work, Not Welfare,” Public Interest, no. 40 (Summer 1975), pp. 3–10. 4 George Gilder, Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America (New York: Basic Books, 1978). 5 Andrew Billingsley, Black Families in White America (Englewood Cliffs, NJ
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jobs security segregation bilingual education and Seldon Technologies semiconductors Senate Budget Committee Senate Finance Committee services, productivity of sexuality and poverty sexual liberation Sexual Suicide (George Gilder) Shackle, George Shamir, Yithzak Shockley, William shopping centers Sierra Club silicon chip Silicon Valley Singapore sinks of purchasing power Sismondi, Simonde de Siuai “Skinner box
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in innumerable ways to continue advocating the blessings of free enterprise, are too numerous to mention here, but have my lasting gratitude. Copyright © 2012 by George Gilder All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy
The Scandal of Money
by George Gilder · 23 Feb 2016 · 209pp · 53,236 words
Copyright © 2016 by George Gilder All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechani-cal, including
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: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (New York, NY: Crown Business, 2014), 5–11 and passim. CHAPTER 2: JUSTICE BEFORE GROWTH 1.George Gilder, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2013). See also Cesar Hidalgo, Why
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Ponzi: Here’s How It Unravels,” David Stockman’s Contra Corner, March 31, 2014, http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/chinas-monumental-ponzi-heres-how-it-unravels/. 2.George Gilder, “Let a Billion Flowers Bloom,” in David Boaz, ed., Toward Liberty: The Idea That Is Changing the World (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2002), 180–81
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, NY: W. W. Norton, 2014). 2.Sir John Craig, The Mint (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953), 198 and passim. 3.Nick Gillespie, “FreedomFest Interview with George Gilder,” ReasonTV, August 12, 2014. 4.These themes are the subject of Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our
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. (London: The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1990). 5.Ametrano, “Hayek Money,” 20. 6.Ametrano, presentation to the Central Bank of Italy, June 9, 2014. 7.George Gilder, Telecosm: The World after Bandwidth Abundance (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002). 8.Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Current FAQs: Informing the
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THESIS 1.Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Belknap Press, 2014). 2.“The Scandal of Money,” chapter 12 in George Gilder, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2013), 113–23. 3.Adair Turner
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SOUL 1.Mike Konczal, “The Devastating Lifelong Consequences of Student Debt,” New Republic, June 24, 2014. See also Bill Walton, On Common Ground, interview with George Gilder. 2.Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (New York, NY: Crown Business, 2014), 89
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–90; and George Gilder, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2013), 29–33. The figures on
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, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), 264 and passim. 5.Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, chapter 12, as examined in “The Economics of Hate,” chapter 5 in George Gilder, The Israel Test: Why the World’s Most Besieged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy (New York, NY: Encounter
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York, NY: Pegasus Books, 2015), epilogue. 4.Maurice McTigue, “Rolling Back Government, Lessons from New Zealand,” Hillsdale College Imprimis 33, no. 4 (April 2004). 5.George Gilder, The Israel Test: Why the World’s Most Besieged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy (New York, NY: Encounter
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
—all groups well woven into the fabric of the Whole Earth community—as well as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, libertarian [ 8 ] Introduction pundits such as George Gilder, and, on the cover of one issue, conservative Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich. To those who think of the 1960s primarily as a break with the
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. In the logic of Wired, they were simply social, as opposed to technical, engineers. Like their brethren in Silicon Valley, conservative author and media analyst George Gilder, futurist Alvin Toffler, and Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich were working to bring about individual liberation and government by contract and code. Together
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House of Representatives in the mid-1990s pushed for the downsizing of government and widespread deregulation— especially in the telecommunications sector. Together with Alvin Toffler, George Gilder, and technology journalist and entrepreneur Esther Dyson, Gingrich argued that America was about to enter a new era, one in which technology would do away
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’s story of world-saving countercultural revolution. This role can be seen most clearly in Wired’s complex relationship with Esther Dyson, libertarian telecommunications analyst George Gilder, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Over the magazine’s first two years, these figures became involved in a cycle of mutual legitimation. At Wired, Gilder
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a countercultural revolution. This process took place over several years and depended for its success on editorial tactics first developed in the Whole Earth publications. George Gilder’s relationship with Wired, for instance, began when Kevin Kelly interviewed him in the magazine’s fourth issue. At first glance, Kelly and Gilder would
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latest stage in the evolution of those spheres; computers also served as tools and analogies for a new and more highly evolved type of leader; George Gilder was one of those leaders. As in its profile of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired had offered the freelance lifestyle of a high-profile consultant
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domain names and addresses on the Internet. At the same time, however, Dyson was finding her way into the center of Republican power. In 1994 George Gilder arranged for Dyson to be invited to a conference in Atlanta entitled “Cyberspace and the American Dream,” sponsored by the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF
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of the narrow goal of deregulating the telecommunications industry. The “Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age” represented the combined efforts of four authors: Esther Dyson, George Gilder, Alvin Toffler, and George Keyworth, who was Ronald Reagan’s former science adviser and a current PFF staffer. The document’s preamble opened with a
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industries.”45 What is more, it should allow “much greater collaboration between the cable industry and phone companies.” In a twist of logic reminiscent of George Gilder’s comments to Kevin Kelly on “nested hierarchies,” the document went on to argue that “obstructing such collaborations”—and, presumably, the near-monopolies that could
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thereafter, Kelly argued that digital networks and networked forms of economic activity would open a new era in human life. Like contemporary pundits such as George Gilder and John Hagel, a corporate consultant and author of the widely read Net Gain, Kelly argued that the rise of the Internet was driving a
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at the Global Business Network, and it is was this claim that the writers of Wired bolstered by depicting subjects such as Esther Dyson and George Gilder as people who spoke or acted like computers. As the communards of the back-to-the-land movement had once argued that they were forerunners
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. For a thorough critical analysis of the “Magna Carta,” see Moore, “Cyberspace Inc. and the Robber Baron Age.” 33. Gilder, Men and Marriage, vii; Bronson, “George Gilder,” 188. 34. For an account of these conferences, see Borsook, Cyberselfish, 59 – 61, 131–33. 35. Gilder, quoted in Kelly
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, “George Gilder,” 39, 40. 36. Ibid., 40. 37. Wiener, Human Use of Human Beings, 96. Two years after running this piece, Kelly and Wired published a mild
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were both a product of the “natural” system of free market capitalism and a sign of the progress that the system had made. 38. Bronson, “George Gilder,” 188. 39. Borsook, “Release,” 95, 97. 40. Ibid., 96. 41. Ibid., 124. 42. Brand, interview, July 24, 2001; Dyson, “Friend and Foe,” 106. 43. Dyson
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Elite. San Francisco: HardWired, 1996. Bromell, Nicholas Knowles. Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Bronson, Po. “George Gilder.” Wired, March 1996. ———. The Nudist on the Late Shift. New York: Random House, 1999. Brooks, David. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How
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Earth Review 64 (Fall 1989): 105 –7. ———. Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age. New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Dyson, Esther, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler. “Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age (Release 1.2, August 22, 1994).” Information Society
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, January 31, 1997. Kelly, Kevin. “The Birth of a Network Nation.” New Age Journal, October 1984. ———. “The Computational Metaphor.” Whole Earth 95 (Winter 1998): 5. ———. “George Gilder: When Bandwidth Is Free.” Wired, September–October 1993. ———. “Nerd Theology.” Technology in Society 21 (1999): 387–92. ———. New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical
After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away
by Doug Henwood · 9 May 2005 · 306pp · 78,893 words
, but there's no small amount of mysticism and true-beheverhood in the doctrine. As Frank pointed out, Reagan's Hne was straight out of George Gilder—and it's quite likely Gilder's son Josh wrote the speech. Gilder is a fascinating figure; it's stunning how his seemingly wacky thoughts
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than a decade later, they were painfully ubiquitous. Back in the summer of 1987, when the Eighties were at their Roar-ingest, an interview with George Gilder ran on the now-departed Financial News Network. Gilder, looking hke he'd just beamed aboard from Melville's Fidele (the flagship of The Confidence
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so 2002. Like Emerson, America is an endless seeker, with no past at its back, unsettling all things. But nothing can shake the faith of George Gilder (who would no doubt concur with Ken Lay's characterization of Jesus as a free-marketeer: "I believe in God and I beUeve in free
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cut 560,000 jobs. And in 2003, over 96% of the capacity built Ues dormant. Many chefs fed the frenzy. Perhaps the most exuberant was George Gilder, who spent the boom celebrating the "telecosm" and touting the stocks that would develop it. In his first incarnation as techno-cheerleader, during the 1980s
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. Money managers eagerly put biUions into his deals, and buyers shunned firms that didn't have his blessing. An "insatiable" demand for bandwidth (just ask George Gilder) would guarantee the success of firms like WorldCom, Qwest, Global Crossing, and Level 3, now all wreckage. And though the often-staid BH^did raise
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Brill, Harry (1999). "Partners in Deceit: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau," Z Magazine, September, pp. 39—44. Bronson, Po (1996). "George Gilder," Wired 4.03 (March) <www.wired.com/wired/archive/ 4.03/gilder_prhtml>. Buchinsky, Moshe, and Jermifer Hunt (1996). "Wage Mobility in the United States
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by Lawrence Lessig · 14 Jul 2001 · 494pp · 142,285 words
scarcity may not be a system of control. The best response may simply be to remove the scarcity. This is the promise that conservative commentator George Gilder reports. The future, Gilder argues, is a world with “infinite” bandwidth.71 Our picture of the Net now—of slow connections and fast machines—will
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. They resist, that is, both government-granted and market-regulated licenses. Thus, when the government proposed auctioning off more of the radio spectrum, conservative economist George Gilder responded not by praising markets, but by attacking the political corruption implicit in these deals. Says Gilder: Still more subversive of good policy, the very
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spectrum—where spectrum rights are auctioned off up front—and the commons model for allocating spectrum, promoted most strongly by an ally of Huber's, George Gilder. As I described in chapter 5, Gilder argues strongly that we should allocate spectrum as a commons. Auctions, Gilder argues, will simply entrench existing uses
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http://ieee.org/organizations/history_center/oral_histories/transcripts/ baran.html; interview by J. O'Neill with Paul Baran, Menlo Park, California (March 5, 1990); George Gilder, “Inventing the Internet Again,” Forbes (June 2, 1997), 106 (lengthy article about Baran); Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, “Casting the Net,” The Sciences (September 1
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), 99. 39 As background, see Peter Cukor and Lee McKnight, “Knowledge Networks, the Internet, and Development,” Fletcher Forum of World Affairs (Winter 2001): 43, 46; George Gilder, Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (New York: Free Press, 2000), 70-71. 40 Telephone interview with David Isenberg, February 14, 2001. 41
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Gaynor et al., “Theory of Service Architecture: How to Encourage Innovation of Services in Networks” (working paper, 2000, on file with author), 14. 69 Indeed, George Gilder believes the increasing capacity of optical fiber will render moot this debate about QoS. “Today on the Internet, the consensus claims that QoS will be
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their attitude about scarcity. At one extreme is a group we might call utopians. These people, such as Dave Hughes, Paul Baran, David Reed, and George Gilder, believe that it is more likely than not that spectrum, properly used, would in essence be unlimited. See, e.g., Paul Baran, “Is the UHF
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Amendment Jurisprudence,” Remarks Before the Media Institute, April 22, 1998 (transcript available at http://www. fcc.gov/Speeches/Powell/spmkp808.html), 5 (emphasis added). 37 George Gilder, Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (New York: Free Press, 2000), 160. CHAPTER 6 1 Carol Rose, “The Comedy of the Commons: Custom
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repeatedly argued that a future infrastructure based on fiber optics would provide “infinite bandwidth.” See George Gilder, Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (New York: Free Press, 2000); George Gilder, “Rulers of the Rainbow: The New Emperors of the Telecosm Will Use the Infinite Spectrum of Light—Visible and Invisible—to Beef
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up Bandwidth,” Forbes ASAP (October 1998): 104; and George Gilder, “Into the Fibersphere (Fiber Optics),” Forbes (December 1992): 111. 31 Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 6th ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000), 4. 32 Robert
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even a hundred times) as much communication capacity. Telephone interview with David Reed. 38 Noam, “Beyond Spectrum Auctions.” 39 Ibid., 465. 40 Ibid., 466. 41 George Gilder, Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (New York: Free Press, 2000), 159. 42 Ibid., 159-60. Gilder's point is correct whether or
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13 1 Telephone interview with Pat Feely (July 18, 2001). 2 Interview with John Seely Brown in Stanford, Calif. (May 2, 2001). CHAPTER 14 1 George Gilder, Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (New York: Free Press, 2000), 163 (“[T]he FCC should not be in the business of licensing
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber · 1 Jan 2007 · 498pp · 145,708 words
between Protestant virtue and the superannuated capitalism of yesteryear. There is perhaps no more touching, certainly no more atavistically compelling figure in recent times than George Gilder, who between stints in the 1960s as a critic of feminism and today as a champion of futuristic digital technology, managed in the early 1980s
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and business-school gurus over the last decade or two to find a tribe of preachers who, far from abandoning the language of ethics, imitate George Gilder and David Brooks and reinvent it. They draw absurdist parodies of self-rationalizing solipsism and turn them into a new capitalist ethic. Ayn Rand’s
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time become the basis for future capital accumulation and the building of a rational edifice of prosperity. It is protocapitalist men of this sort that George Gilder seems to be celebrating when he prefers risk-taking modern entrepreneurs to Weber’s prudent accountants, whose risk taking is always filtered by calculation. The
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pluralism of content. The internet has already entangled us in a World Wide Web that has become a surrogate reality. Futurologists in the mould of George Gilder have gone a step further in quest of ubiquity, imagining an electronic network built into and coterminous with the atmosphere, an “ethersphere” into which anyone
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brains happily gravitate to that newfound complexity…. Dumbing down is not the naturalstate of popular culture over time—quite the opposite.”56 These passages, like George Gilder’s misplaced enthusiasm for Protestant virtues no longer needed or wanted by consumer capitalism, point to the chief danger that also faces the more judicious
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(New York: Henry Holt, 2005), pp. 248–249. I will return to this theme and Thomas Frank’s take on it in chapter 7. 12. George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1981), p. x. 13. Ibid., p. 266. 14. Ibid., p. 6. 15. John Locke proposed that the division
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Times, May 24, 2006. 27. Doreen Carvajal, “Advertisers Count on Sheep to Pull Eyes Over the Wool,” New York Times, April 24, 2006. 28. See George Gilder, Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance (New York: Touchstone, 2002). Gilder’s “Technology Reports” continue to follow these trends. 29. Quoted in Seth Schiesel, “For
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and His World, trans. Hélène Iswolsky (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), p. 10. 28. Lears, Fables of Abundance, p. 9. 29. For this reason, while George Gilder celebrates modern capitalism, he does so by confounding its Protestant virtues, which he admires, with its recent virtues, which are altogether different. See his Wealth
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
and the fierceness of its belief in libertarian principles.5 Yet another think tank, the Manhattan Institute, founded in 1977, began supporting the work of George Gilder, whose celebration of free market capitalism, Wealth and Poverty, became one of the bibles of the Reagan administration and the emerging neoliberal order on its
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and women who had accepted the Bible’s teaching that all human beings were God’s children. Within the intellectual vanguard of this movement, both George Gilder and Thomas Sowell were adamant in their belief that the moral traditionalism they were advocating—and the economic success that would result from individuals living
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and governmental elites at Aspen and Davos.45 This internet revolution was closely tied ideologically to visions of market freedom. Four cyberspace enthusiasts—Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler—encased their IT vision in a manifesto, “Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age,” which
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it had to push a world of government planning, conformity, and standardization into existence. Many of those in America who hated the New Deal (including George Gilder) did so because they viewed the latter as one step below the centralized planning nightmare imbedded in the Five-Year Plans long adored in the
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Flat, published in 2005 in the midst of the Iraqi occupation. The book’s techno-utopianism echoed that of Clinton-era cyberspace enthusiasts Esther Dyson, George Gilder, and Alvin Toffler. But if the latter group was mostly focused on the cybernetic revolution as an American event, Friedman was struck by its global
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Fishtown’s other ills, Murray claimed, flowed from the disintegration of marriage and the family as pillars of social life.5 Like his fellow neoliberal George Gilder, Murray believed that stable marriages were necessary to “domesticate” men, who otherwise would behave irresponsibly at work, at play, and in relationships.6 Minus such
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families and to inculcate moral virtue in the young. Families that adhered to this moral code—so aggressively trumpeted by the likes of Charles Murray, George Gilder, and many other leading neoliberal intellectuals—would then produce citizens with proper integrity and probity. Well-functioning family units would learn to live within their
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Truth (New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1978), xi, xv. 11.Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands, 245–246. For another neoliberal manifesto from the era, see George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1981). See also Mayer, Dark Money; Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right
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(New York: Bantam Books, 1980). Alvin Toffler had risen to prominence with his previous book Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970). 47.Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler, “Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age,” http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1
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Truths: A History of the United States (New York: W. W. Norton, 2019), Part IV. 51.Dyson et al., “Cyberspace and the American Dream.” 52.George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1981). On Dyson, see Paulina Borsook, “Release,” Wired, May 1, 1993, https://www.wired.com/1993/05/dyson
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to it here to narrate Murray’s view of the social disintegration that followed in Fishtown upon the collapse of the institution of marriage. For George Gilder’s view of these matters, see his Sexual Suicide (New York: Bantam Books, 1975), and Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1981). 7.In
Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank
by John Tamny · 30 Apr 2016 · 268pp · 74,724 words
don’t often emerge from defensive investing. Big advances that truly expand the amount of economic resources in a society (as always, credit) are, as George Gilder puts it, the result of “surprise.”8 Edison’s innovations that led to the electric light bulb and a company that thrives to this day
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curve. CHAPTER EIGHT Why “Senator Warren Buffett” Would Be a Credit-Destroying Investor It is the leap, not the look, that generates the crucial information. —George Gilder BACK IN THE EARLY PART of the twentieth century, when the automobile industry was in its infancy, there were more than two thousand car companies
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were cleared of some admittedly bad ideas, the only sane response would be to wish for more of these “bubbles” every few years. Indeed, as George Gilder notes in his masterful Knowledge and Power, “Crises may be growth spasms.” Gilder’s point is that economic advancement is about the leap, and it
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name but three) as evidence that for-profit investors are fully capable of funding Solyndra-like debacles. Yet that is the point. The quote by George Gilder that begins this chapter explains why. Gilder’s words are loaded with essential knowledge about how an economy grows. It doesn’t grow based on
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. Why gold? Historically, it’s been the commodity that is least variable in terms of value. Gold is the “constant,” as it were. Or as George Gilder put it in his 2015 monograph The 21st Century Case for Gold, “Gold is the monetary element that holds value rather than dissipates it.”8
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. It’s an immediate tax on production and on the subsequent creation of real economic resources. It’s anti the very information that the great George Gilder (not an Austrian) correctly says is necessary for economic growth, because government spending goes on forever without regard to its effect. Austrians know all this
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Forbes magazine “published its first list of the 400 richest Americans in 1982, 153 of them owed their fortunes to real estate or oil.”8 George Gilder observed about the 1970s in Wealth and Poverty that while “24 million investors in the stock markets were being buffeted by inflation and taxes, 46
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his death led to days of riots that furthered the city’s implosion. Moving from Baltimore to the other side of the world, in 1988 George Gilder visited China on a trip set up by the libertarian Cato Institute. One of his fellow attendees was legendary Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman. Known for
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(New York: Crown Business, 2014), 84. 7. Tim Harford, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2011), 236. 8. George Gilder, Knowledge and Power (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2013), 5. 9. Thomas Kessner, Capital City: New York City and the Men behind America’s Rise to
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, 2013), 5. 6. Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, “The Green Energy Economy Reconsidered,” Forbes, April 25, 2011. 7. Smith, Wealth of Nations, 370. 8. George Gilder, The 21st Century Case for Gold: A New Information Theory of Money (Washington, D.C.: American Principles Project, 2015), 64. 9. Ibid., 69. 10. Hayward
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Frum, How We Got Here: The 70’s—The Decade that Brought You Modern Life—For Better or Worse (New York: Basic Books, 2000). 9. George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1981), 176–77. 10. Quin Hillyer, “Catch a Falling Dollar!” American Spectator, November 27, 2007. 11. Gustav Cassel
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words
corporate conquest of the Web had started. CHAPTER FOUR The Libertarian Counterinsurgency We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. —Peter Thiel 1. George Gilder was down on his luck. Sweating like a pig in a humid office with a broken air conditioner, he was working in 1972 for Ben
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Stanford, his ideas on the subject were very close to Gilder’s. Years later, Gilder returned the compliment, as Forbes columnist Ralph Benko noted: “When George Gilder, arguably the smartest man in the world, says, as he said to me over dinner recently in Washington, DC, that Peter Thiel is the smartest
Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs
by Andy Kessler · 1 Feb 2011 · 272pp · 64,626 words
Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School
by Andrew Hallam · 1 Nov 2011 · 274pp · 60,596 words
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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