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Wealth and Poverty

A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

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Wealth and Poverty

By: George F. Gilder
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release. In this modern classic, Gilder affirms the moral superiority of free-market capitalism and explains why supply-side economics is more effective at decreasing poverty than government-regulated markets.

Now, in a completely updated edition of Wealth and Poverty, Gilder compares America’s current economic challenges with its past economic problems - particularly those of the late 1970s - and explains why Obama’s big-government, redistributive policies are doing more harm than good for the poor.

Making the case that supply-side economics and free-market policies are - and always will be - the answer to decreasing America’s poverty rate and increasing her prosperity, Wealth and Poverty offers solutions to America’s current economic problems and hope to those who fear that our best days are behind us.

©2012 George Gilder (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Conservatism & Liberalism Economic Ideologies & Doctrines Politics & Government Poverty & Homelessness Public Policy Social Sciences Money Taxation Capitalism Socialism Banking Liberalism Economic disparity

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"One should not underestimate what Gilder accomplished in this volume." ( Freeman)
Profound Economic Insights • Commanding Understanding • Clear Enunciation • Broad Perspective • Essential Creativity
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Well researched and thought-provoking. Creativity, not regulation and planning, is essential to progress. People need challenges, not guarantees, to excel.

Profound insights into economics and creativity

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What made the experience of listening to Wealth and Poverty the most enjoyable?

Grover Gardner the narrator has a very fluent and yet distinctive voice that is very comforting to listen to..

What other book might you compare Wealth and Poverty to and why?

The Price of Inequality by Joseph Sliglitz

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The downsizing and the collapse of America

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Very knowledgeable and powerful.

Great listen for any American

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Clearly spells out immutable principals and supports them in a coherantly logical way.

Reader speaks clearly with good pace and intonation.

Wonderfully Insightful and Articulate

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must read. this should be taught at every school. every citizen should know this information. We are an ignorant country for not knowing what is in this book.

best book ever.<br />

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Detailed & clear on economic consequences. Both sides are critiqued. Can be dry at times, interesting details did pop out often. I do recommend reading it at least once!!

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Every politician and every high school senior should be tested on the content of this book. It's the best book on the way the world works since "The Way the World Works". The narrator does an excellent job as well as each word is enunciated clearly and with inflection.

George Gilder's thesis is spot on.

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From my Scottish ancestry who owned shops, stores and factories to my own personal 30 years of retail business in the US. This book bears witness to the truth thay we have had to live by. Hearing these economic truths so eloquently presented was an absolute delight to my soul.

This book bears witnesses to the economic reality.

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George Gilder leaves no stone unturned. Timeless lessons through history and facts. Brilliant a must read!

Phenomenal Masterpiece

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This author over glorifies the capitalistic system in the US. The point of view in the book mainly caters to Anglo-Saxon males that believe that there is a consistent opportunity for the acquisition of wealth. There are some truthful statistical findings of wealth and poverty, but the author uses it to direct his ideals of what constitutes the positive progression of wealth. There are too many red hearings and argumentative problems with some of the chapters.

My biggest problem with the book is the cause of poverty in African American communities and immigrant communities. The author lightly goes over the challenges of discrimination, but completely overlooks the institutional racism that has kept communities of color from obtaining wealth! And how the author used statistical findings that communities of color have lower IQs and lower wills to work which makes it hard to get out of poverty, and completely overlooks how his argument that individuals need faith in the future yet ignores that colored individuals have these problems. These points are evident in books such as 'The Color of Law,' or 'Evicted'.

This book should definitely stay in the 20th century and should be seen as what the wealthy class in the 20th century have recognized wealth and poverty. Otherwise, it is behind in times.

The chapters in the audiobook don't match the book.

The glorification of Capitalism :\

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