The Scandal of Money

Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 5 hrs

Publisher's summary

Why do conservatives have such a hard time winning the economic debate in the court of public opinion? Simple, George Gilder says: Conservatives misunderstand economics almost as badly as liberals do. Republicans have been running on tax cut proposals since the era of Harding and Coolidge without seriously addressing the key problems of a global economy in decline. Enough is enough.

Gilder, author of the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty, proposes a completely new framework for understanding economic growth that will replace failed 20th-century conservative economics and turn the economic debate - and the country - around.

©2016 George Gilder (P)2016 Tantor

Critic reviews

"George Gilder shows that money is time, and time is real. He is our best guide to our most fundamental economic problem." (Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal)

An explaination of the physics and connections governing money over time

Tying together centuries of money and how and why it acts as a messing stick tied to the value of time

The most important book and I've read in the last decade

This book really helped me to grasp why are our economy functions the way it does and how it could be made to function much better. Mr. Gilder manages to explain some very complex but important concepts in ways that are approachable to people without a degree in economics or finance but who have a good science background.

This book would probably be difficult to grasp if I hadn't taken college introductory economics and if I did not have a good science background.

Most importantly, Mr. Gilder is 100% spot on with his analysis of the world's economic problems and the solutions to those problems.

I'm pretty sure this book is important.

However this is one of those books I'll have to listen to several times. At some point I hope I will understand the concepts, but I fear it may be beyond me. Someone said of some economic theories that if you don't grasp them in 5 minutes you probably never will. I fear this may describe my aptitude perfectly.

Brilliant but slightly inaccessible

4 of 5 stars.

First, I'm a fan of George Gilder's writing and thought processes with regards to economics, technology and human innovation. As with several other books he's written, Gilder derives much of his information age philosophy from Claude Shannon (Theory of Information) and the idea that money should be a measuring stick which conveys information. This foundational concept is contrasted with the current broken monetary system of floating currencies and central banking excess.

Released in 2016, Gilder makes some prescient predictions about Bitcoin and Blockchain but other topics have not aged well (e.g. the dominance of China). Despite this, Gilder's ideas and optimism make his work inspiring, even recommended.

The narrator is solid.

Finaly Clarity and Sanity please bring it on.

After the first ten minutes I felt for sure, I was not going to like this. After mercilessly tearing through the usual rhetoric; it started to become clear, this guy makes sense.

Great book

This book reinforces all the things I have learned about money and then expands on it. All good information and very true. This book can get you down because it's hard to take the truth, but that is the case with all books like this. This should be required reading in high school.

eye opener

I don't have a good foundation in economics nor money theory, but I think I understand the author's points. Really look forward to a more egalitarian society where special privileges are stripped from the few, enabled by the new gold standard.

Good book

Well listened to this book the same weekend that two banks failed
Should have listened to it earlier

Biased

Couldn’t get through the intro. Serially, Obama is to blame for collapse of economy? Im sure Bush massive still ending for war had NOTHING to do with it. Conservative republican book. Not trying to get to truth.

An unbearably long op-ed column

The book manages to be both repetitive and pointless. There are times when I thought that I had restarted a previous chapter but their content is almost indistinguishably similar. Obscure historic facts and quotes feel like unnatural filler to pad the word count rather than provide context.