Knowledge and power : the information theory of capitalism and how it is revolutionizing our world / George Gilder.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 295-330) and index.

The theory. The need for a new economics -- The signal in the noise -- The science of information -- Entropy economics -- Romney, Bain, and the curve of learning -- The extent of learning -- The light dawns -- Keynes eclipses information -- Fallacies of entropy and order -- Romer's recipes and their limits -- Mind over matter -- The crisis. The scandal of money -- The fecklessness of efficiency -- Regnorance -- California debauch -- Doing banking right -- The one percent -- The future. The black swans of investment -- The outsider trading scandal -- The explosive elasticities of freedom -- Flattening taxes -- The technology evolution myth -- Israel: InfoNation -- The knowledge horizon -- The power of giving.

One of the twentieth century's defining economic minds proposes a new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how the American economy can regain its vitality and growth.