George Gilder
George Franklin Gilder | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | November 29, 1939
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | Author and Economist |
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Notable work | Wealth and Poverty |
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Cornelia (Nini) Ewing Brooke
(m. 1976) |
Children | 4 |
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Allegiance | United States of America |
Service/ | U.S. Marine Corps |
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George Franklin Gilder (
Early life and education
Gilder was born in New York City and raised in New York and Massachusetts.[1] His father, Richard Watson Gilder II, was killed flying in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II when Gilder was two years old.[2] He is a great-grandson of designer Louis Comfort Tiffany.[3][4]
He spent most of his childhood with his mother, Anne Spring Denny (Alsop), and his stepfather, Gilder Palmer, on a dairy farm in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Palmer, a college roommate of his father, was deeply involved with his upbringing,[1] as was the family of David Rockefeller, his godfather.[2]
Gilder attended Hamilton School in New York City, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, graduating in 1962.[1] He later returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and edited the Ripon Forum, the newspaper of the liberal Republican Ripon Society.
Marine Corps
Gilder served in the United States Marine Corps. [a][5]
Career
Speechwriting
In the 1960s Gilder served as a speechwriter for several prominent officials and candidates, including
With his college roommate,
Supply-side economics
Gilder wrote a book extending the ideas of his Visible Man (1978) into the realm of economics, to balance his theory of poverty with a theory of wealth.[7] The book, published as the best-selling Wealth and Poverty in 1981, communicated the ideas of supply-side economics to a wide audience in the United States and the world.[8][non-primary source needed]
Gilder also contributed to the development of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute's Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and as a frequent contributor to Laffer's economic reports and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.[9]
Technology
In the 1990s, he became an evangelist of technology and the Internet. He discussed emerging trends in several books and his newsletter, the Gilder Technology Report.[1]
The first mention of the word "
Gilder wrote the books Microcosm, about
Gilder is an investor in private companies and serves as the chairman of the advisory board in Israel-based ASOCS that he discovered during his research for Israel Test.[11]
On women and feminism
In the early 1970s, Gilder wrote an article in the Ripon Forum defending President
Gilder moved to
Support for immigration
Gilder has praised
The American Spectator
Gilder bought the conservative political monthly magazine The American Spectator from its founder, Emmett Tyrrell, in the summer of 2000, switching the magazine's focus from politics to technology.[13]
Experiencing his own financial problems in 2002,[14] Gilder sold the Spectator back to Tyrrell.[15]
Speaking engagements and editorial contributions
Gilder lectures internationally on economics, technology, education, and social theory. He has addressed audiences from Washington, D.C., to the Vatican, and he has appeared at conferences, public policy events, and media outlets.[16]
Wealth and Poverty
After completing Visible Man in the late 1970s, Gilder began writing "The Pursuit of Poverty." In early 1981, Basic Books published the result as Wealth and Poverty. It was an analysis of the roots of economic growth. Reviewing it within a month of the inauguration of the Reagan Administration, The New York Times reviewer called it "A Guide to Capitalism". It offered, he wrote, "a creed for capitalism worthy of intelligent people."[17] The book was a New York Times bestseller,[18] and eventually sold over a million copies.[19]
In Wealth and Poverty, Gilder extended the sociological and anthropological analysis of his early books in which he had advocated for the socialization of men into service to women through work and marriage. He wove these sociological themes into the economic policy prescriptions of supply-side economics. In his eyes the breakup of the nuclear family and the policies of demand-side economics led to poverty, while family and supply-side policies led to wealth.
In reviewing the problems of the immediate past—the inflation, recession, and urban problems of the 1970s—and proposing his supply-side solutions, Gilder argued not just the practical but the moral superiority of supply-side capitalism over the alternatives. "Capitalism begins with giving," he asserted, while New Deal liberalism created moral hazard. It was work, family, and faith that created wealth out of poverty. "It is this supply-side moral vision that underlies all the economic arguments of Wealth and Poverty," he wrote.[20][non-primary source needed]
In 1994, Gilder wrote that the poor in America are "ruined by the overflow of American prosperity" and "moral decay" and that they are in need of "Christian teaching from the churches."[21]
Intelligent design
In 1991 Gilder cofounded the
Publications
Books
- The Party That Lost Its Head Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (1966). With Bruce Chapman.
- Sexual Suicide (1973)
- Naked Nomads: Unmarried Men in America (1974)
- Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America (1978)
- Wealth and Poverty (1981)
- Men and Marriage (1986)
- The Spirit of Enterprise (1986)
- Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology (1989)
- Life After Television (1990)
- Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise (1992)
- The Meaning of the Microcosm (1997)
- Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance (2000)
- The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (2005)
- The Silicon Eye: Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation (2006)
- The Israel Test (2009)
- Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the 21st Century (2012)
- Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World (2013)
- The Scandal of Money (2016)
- Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (2018)[25]
- Gaming AI: Why AI Can't Think but Can Transform Jobs (2020)
- Life after Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money (2023)
Contributions by Gilder
- Gilder, George (2002). "Computer Industry". In
Notes
- ^ Gilder anecdotally writes about his time in the Marine Corps in a Forbes magazine article.
References
- ^ a b c d e f MacFarquhar, Larissa (May 29, 2000). "The Gilder Effect". The New Yorker. p. 102. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ a b Gilder, George (July 27, 2020). "Life After Google". London Real (Interview). Interviewed by Brian Rose.
- ^ "Nexus: The Bimonthly Newsletter of the New England Historic Genealogical Society". The Society. April 24, 1984. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780806310855. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ Gilder, George (December 14, 2006). "George Gilder Is On A Ken Fisher Kick". Forbes. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
- ^ Gilder, George (March 5, 1982), "Why I am Not a Neo-Conservative", National Review, 34 (4): 219–20
- ISBN 1-55815-240-7.
- ^ Gilder 1993, p. xv.
- ^ Gilder, George. "George Gilder". Discovery Institute. Retrieved April 24, 2020.
- ^ David Foster Wallace, "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", Review of Contemporary Fiction, 185
- ^ Egan, Sophie (February 9, 2011). "Technology Visionary George Gilder Invests in ASOCS". Telecoms.com. Retrieved April 24, 2020.
- ^ Gilder, George (December 18, 1995), "Geniuses from Abroad", Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on October 8, 2011
- ^ York, Byron (November 2001), "The Life and Death of the American Spectator", The Atlantic Monthly
- ^ Prince, Marcello (May 8, 2006), "Where Are They Now: George Gilder", The Wall Street Journal
- ^ Kurtz, Howard (June 10, 2002). "The News That Didn't Fit To Print". The Washington Post.
- ^ Bronson, Po. "George Gilder". Wired. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ Starr, Roger (February 1, 1981), "A Guide to Capitalism", The New York Times
- ^ "Adult New York Times Best Seller List for April 12, 1981" (PDF). Retrieved April 24, 2020.
- OCLC 23016353.
- ^ Gilder 1993, p. xxii.
- ^ Gilder, George (March–April 1994), "Freedom from Welfare Dependency", Religion & Liberty
- ^ "What we do". Discovery Institute. Retrieved July 17, 2023.
- ^ Chris C. Mooney, "Inferior Design" Archived June 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, The American Prospect, September 2005, excerpt from The Republican War on Science (2005)
- ^ George Gilder, "Evolution and Me" National Review, July 17, 2006
- ^ "Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy". Goodreads.
External links
- George Gilder's Gilder Technology Report
- Gilder Publishing, LLC
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- A film clip "The Open Mind — A Theology for Capitalism (1981)" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive