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KNOWLEDGE AND POWER

George Gilder

 
 

Subtitle: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World, Regnery, Washington D.C., 2013, 348 pgs., index, notes, glossary.

 
 

Reviewer comment: The books has been reviewed by Matthew Rees, "The Real market-Makers" in WSJ, March 18, 2014. He focuses on Gilder's strong support for entrepreneurs and inventors as the real creater of knew knowledge and using it to develop andexpand the modern economy.

 
 

Forward

 
 

Part One; The Theory
- Chapter 1 - The Need for a New Economics

 
 

Chapter 2 - The Signal in the Noise

 
 

Chapter 3 - The Science of Information

 
 

Chapter 4 - Entropy Economics

 
 

Chapter 5 - Romney, Bain, and the Curve of Learning

 
 

Chapter 6 - The Extent of Learning

 
 

Chapter 7 - The Light Dawns

 
 

Chapter 8 - Keynes Eclipses Information

 
 

Chapter 9 - Fallacies of Entropy and Order

 
 

Chapter 10 - Romer's Recipes and Their Limits

 
 

Chapter 11 - Mind Over Matter

 
 

Part Two: The Crisis
Chapter 12 - The Scandal of Money

 
 

Chapter 13 - The Fecklessness of Efficiency

 
 

Chapter 14 - Regnorance

 
 

Chapter 15 - California Debauch

 
 

Chapter 16 - Doing Banking Right

 
 

Chapter 17 - The One Percent

 
 

Part Three - The Future
Chapter 18 The Black Swans of Investment

 
 

Chapter 19 - The Outsider Trading Scandal

 
 

Chapter 20 - The Explosive Elasticities of Freedom

 
 

Chapter 21 - Flattening Taxes

 
 

Chapter 22 - The Technology Evolution Myth

 
 

Chapter 23 - Israel: InfoNation

 
 

Chapter 24 - The Knowledge Horizon

 
 

Chapter 25 - The Power of Giving

 

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