Wealth and Poverty

by Gilder, George F.; Forbes, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781596988095
• ISBN10: 1596988096
• Edition: 7 NEW REV
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-21
• Publisher: Gateway Books

Summary

Hailed as "the guide to capitalism," this bestseller is one of the most famous economic books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release.

Author Biography

George Gilder is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and preeminent economic thinker.   Presently, Gilder is also the Editor in Chief of Gilder Technology Report, Chairman of Gilder Publishing, LLC, and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute.
Born in 1939 in New York City, Mr. Gilder attended Exeter Academy and Harvard University. At Harvard, he studied under Henry Kissinger and helped found Advance, a journal of political thought. Gilder later became a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and editor of the Ripon Forum. In the 1960s, he served as a speechwriter for several prominent officials and candidates, including Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Richard Nixon. In the subsequent decade, as an independent researcher and writer, Mr. Gilder began an excursion into the causes of poverty, which resulted in his original publication of Wealth and Poverty (1981).
Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side economics while serving as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute’s Economic Roundtable and Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and contributing to Art Laffer’s economic reports and the Wall Street Journal editorial page. His work laid the foundation for Reagan’s economic revolution.   Thanks to the success of Wealth and Poverty, Gilder became the most frequently quoted living author by President Reagan.  In 1986, President Reagan awarded him the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence. 
Mr. Gilder is a contributing editor of Forbes magazine and a frequent writer for the Economist, the American Spectator, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He resides in Massachusetts with his wife and four children, where he is an active churchman and avid runner.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Prologue: The Secret of Enterprise	p. xiii
The Mandate for Capitalism
The Dirge of Triumph	p. 3
The Economy of Frustration	p. 11
The Returns of Giving	p. 27
The Supply Side	p. 51
The Nature of Wealth	p. 75
The Nature of Poverty	p. 97
The Entrepreneurial Future	p. 111
The Clashes of Class	p. 125
The War against Wealth	p. 139
The Crisis of Policy
The Moral Hazards of Liberalism	p. 149
The Coming Welfare Boom	p. 161
The Myths of Discrimination	p. 179
The Jobs Perplex	p. 195
The Make-Work Illusion	p. 211
Laffer and Liberal Economics	p. 233
The Inflationary State	p. 259
Reconsideration 2012	p. 279
The Productivity of Services	p. 283
The Imperatives of Growth	p. 297
The Economy of Faith
The Kinetic Economy	p. 319
The Bullheaded Brewer	p. 335
The Necessity for Faith	p. 351
Epilogue: The Supply-Side Solution	p. 365
Acknowledgments	p. 381
Notes	p. 387
Selected Bibliography	p. 419
Index	p. 433
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