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Enlightening about who really runs our government

Revisado: 07-25-22 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Hard to believe, but Congress lets itself be bought by mega-corporations, billionaires and the media. Meanwhile common folks suffer the consequences of government run for the rich. Why doesn't the Supreme Court stop it?

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Great Book. Must read to understand Putin

Revisado: 10-02-16

Well written. Fascinating details about Putin's relation ship with Presidents Clinton and Bush. I could not put it down.

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Great insights into Iran's 20th century history

Revisado: 08-15-16

This book makes it clear that we (the US) have often given up our principles for expediency. In the case of Iran, we have not just supported a dictator, we have actually destroyed a democracy to put our man in power. Our excuse: We were paranoid about the Soviet Union. When it comes to the Middle East, our foreign policy has been a disaster and it all started with Iran.

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Clear, concise and accurate

Revisado: 08-08-16

Having lived 8 years under National Socialism and having escaped from the Socialist "Workers Paradise" of East Germany in 1953, I have to congratulate the author on a job well done. I have never seen or read a better description of what Socialism is, how it works and what it does to the people.

Unfortunately, the people, who are steering this country towards Socialism, are unlikely to read this book. History repeats itself, because most of us are ignorant of it.

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Solution is a bit naive

Revisado: 08-07-16

Senator Lee is right on when it comes to the founders perspective of our Constitution and its subversion by a power hungry government. However, I don't share his hopes that a few good men can restore the powers, the federal government has extracted for itself, to the people. Jefferson was right: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. This process is only reversible by a revolution."

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Mixed Bag

Revisado: 04-15-16

I found the book funny, interesting and absorbing, but the author doesn't quite understand the high tech startup entrepreneurial culture. As an entrepreneur, I take exception to the idea that startup capital is plentiful and Stock Options in lieu of higher salary are exploitation. The average start-up raises $1 million or even less and cannot get going without everyone making some short term sacrifices. Dan thinks Uber should treat drivers using their service as employees - ridiculous! That's a Labor Union position unrelated to reality.

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Well balanced perspective

Revisado: 04-02-16

This title gets past the propaganda from both sides and puts the Islam vs. Judeo-Christian history into a well balanced perspective.

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"Outstanding story of the Berlin Wall"

Revisado: 12-26-14

This story is about the lives of people in Germany, the UK, the US, Poland and the USSR from the building of the Berlin Wall till its torn down. It seems well researched and is quite realistic, although I question the episode where Wally goes back to East Berlin to talk his girlfriend into escaping, after having successfully escaped and killed a border guard in the process. His anti conservative bias is evident in a few episodes. i.e. He accuses Barry Goldwater of being a racist and he gives credit for the collapse of the USSR only to Gorbachov, in contradiction to the generally prevailing view, especially abroad, that most of the credit goes to Ronal Reagan.

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Outstanding story of the Berlin Wall

Revisado: 12-26-14

This story is about the lives of people in Germany, the UK, the US, Poland and the USSR from the building of the Berlin Wall till its torn down. It seems well researched and is quite realistic, although I question the episode where Wally goes back to East Berlin to talk his girlfriend into escaping, after having successfully escaped and killed a border guard in the process. His anti conservative bias is evident in a few episodes. i.e. He accuses Barry Goldwater of being a racist and he gives credit for the collapse of the USSR only to Gorbachov, in contradiction to the generally prevailing view, especially abroad, that most of the credit goes to Ronal Reagan.

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Human Creativety creates Economic Growth

Revisado: 07-22-13

Economists usually talk in terms of supply & demand, return on investment, productivity, efficiency and so on; a rather materialistic approach. Humans are usually treated like machines, i.e. human capital or human resources.

In "Knowledge and Power", George Gilder takes a different tack to economic growth. According to Gilder, economic growth is a first order function of human Creativity. The Creator is the Entrepreneur. The Entrepreneur knows his field and has rapid access to the information he requires. Therefore, he has the Knowledge required to realize his idea. However, he also must have Power over his project so he'll be willing to take the risk and start a new business. If we give him the Power, he'll create jobs and grow the economy.

What an enlightening and simple concept. Give the Entrepreneur the Power to control his life and his project and he'll be off taking all kinds of risk to realize his dream. That means Power needs to be distributed to where the Knowledge is. If Power is centralized, bad decisions are made due to insufficient Knowledge and lack of skin in the game.

Geoge does not engage in a Zero Sum Game like Marxist economists. He does not endorse the Keynesian theory of Growth though stimulus, which is just another Zero Sum Game. He goes beyond Supply Side Economics. He puts human creativity front and center. When creativity lies dormant, there is stagnation.

Knowledge and Power is well researched. Gilder reviews many other books on the subject.

Growth = f(Entrepreneur + Knowledge + Information + Power)

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