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Knowledge and power : the information theory of capitalism and how it is revolutionizing our world / George Gilder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2013Distributor: New York, NY : Perseus Distribution. Description: xvi, 348 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781621570271 (hardcover)
  • 1621570274
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB 133 G468k 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
The theory. The need for a new economics -- The signal in the noise -- The science of information -- Entropy economics -- Romney, Bain, and the curve of learning -- The extent of learning -- The light dawns -- Keynes eclipses information -- Fallacies of entropy and order -- Romer's recipes and their limits -- Mind over matter -- The crisis. The scandal of money -- The fecklessness of efficiency -- Regnorance -- California debauch -- Doing banking right -- The one percent -- The future. The black swans of investment -- The outsider trading scandal -- The explosive elasticities of freedom -- Flattening taxes -- The technology evolution myth -- Israel: InfoNation -- The knowledge horizon -- The power of giving.
Summary: One of the twentieth century's defining economic minds proposes a new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how the American economy can regain its vitality and growth.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) HB 133 G468k 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000138121

Includes bibliographic references (pages 295-330) and index.

The theory. The need for a new economics -- The signal in the noise -- The science of information -- Entropy economics -- Romney, Bain, and the curve of learning -- The extent of learning -- The light dawns -- Keynes eclipses information -- Fallacies of entropy and order -- Romer's recipes and their limits -- Mind over matter -- The crisis. The scandal of money -- The fecklessness of efficiency -- Regnorance -- California debauch -- Doing banking right -- The one percent -- The future. The black swans of investment -- The outsider trading scandal -- The explosive elasticities of freedom -- Flattening taxes -- The technology evolution myth -- Israel: InfoNation -- The knowledge horizon -- The power of giving.

One of the twentieth century's defining economic minds proposes a new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how the American economy can regain its vitality and growth.

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