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George Gilder, born on November 29, 1939, is an American writer, economist, and technology critic. His works cover economics, technology, and public policy, offering profound insights into free markets and technological innovation.

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“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.”

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Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.”

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Book:Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise

Source: Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise

“Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.”

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“All progress comes from the creative minority.”

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Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.”

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Book:The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Beseiged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy

Source: The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Beseiged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy