Author of national bestseller Life After Google and
generation-defining Wealth and Poverty, venture capitalist, futurist,
and pioneering thinker extraordinaire George Gilder pinpoints how the
clash of creativity with power at the heart of economic systems leads to
global cognitive dissonance and argues that the creation of the novel
taps capitalism's infinite promise and is humanity's only path of escape
from stagnation and tyranny. Gilder once more rocks the archetypes of
modern information theory and economics with a paradigm-shifting salvo
of sheer brilliance.
For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global
economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for
limitless human potential.
Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy.
Creativity and faith in the future--the true engines driving
capitalistic economies--have been traded for a slippery slope of
cautionary paranoia, popular despair, and political overreach by leaders
who promise to hold back the tides, control the weather, and print
prosperity with little clue as to what is actually going on.
This divergence did not begin with the Obama administration, the Trump
presidency, the Gates Foundation, or George Soros, says leading futurist
George Gilder. The cognitive dissonance and its harvest of confusion and
despair reflects a deep misunderstanding at the heart of capitalism
itself.
In Life After Capitalism, national bestselling author George Gilder
explains how economics is not an incentive system but an information
system. Redefining capitalism for the modern age, he reveals how free
enterprise is a mind driven system, that material resources are
essentially as infinite as the atoms of the universe, and that what
governs economic growth is human creativity--not merely a Marxist class
struggle for power.
