Knowingo
Wealth and Poverty
Does wealth grow from planning and redistribution, or from freedom, risk and human creativity?
At a glance
- Author
- George Gilder
Why read it
- You will weigh Gilder's claim that a planned, managed economy tends to be barren and to block new ideas
- You will stop expecting any plan, public or private, to deliver growth without risk and occasional failure
- You will test the claim that endless delay of new energy projects, in the name of safety, can cause more harm later
Who it is for
- A regulator weighing whether strict safety rules are stifling new products
- A business founder trying to judge how regulation affects new ideas
- A voter deciding whether more government planning would help the poor
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