This week on Uncommon Knowledge: George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty, the book that was a best-seller at the dawn of the Reagan era and became something of a guide to the Reagan administration itself, is now–just in time, perhaps, for the Romney years–available in a new edition. In this wide-ranging conversation, Gilder discusses the economy, the root causes of the financial crash, and what the next President needs to do to fix it.
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George Gilder first came to my attention with the publication of Men and Marriage in 1973. He is a brilliant mind able to articulate unpopular or obscure truth, and then able to overcome the opposition to those thoughts.
His prediction that the liberal amoral philosophy would untimately lead to a welfare state to protect women and children, and a police state to control men is the synthesis of the Men and Marriage ideas that women civilize society by demanding fidelity from men and the idea that the creativity of free people pursuing capitalist enterprize enable the wealth required to prevent that state.
It is the best commentary on people since Adam Smith and John Locke, without collaboration, reached the same conclusion.
The Biblical foundation to Judeo-Christian Western Civilization is the first articulation of these truths, and in abandoning this foundation we have sown the seeds of the death of the future as an optimistic idea.
Utopianism will be the end of the good because it demands the perfect.
Great guest. First time hearing of him.
Will have to check out his book.
Glad to hear it’s updated.
Wish I knew a little more about the differences between the original.
So interesting! I’ve ordered his book. He reminds me, in his understandable approach to economics and capitalism, of your interviews with Thomas Sowell.