The Spirit of Enterprise, by George Gilder (Simon & Schuster, 274 pp., $17.95)
Too many people seem to have forgotten that the word “wealth” means well-being as well as affluence. Four years ago, in Wealth and Poverty, George Gilder pulled together the long-existing but recently neglected strands of morality, folk wisdom, and basic elements of human nature that can lend to wealth and its accumulation a moral dimension—a virtue—that even the staunchest defenders of capitalism often ignore. Most but not all. A hundred and fifty years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville smelled a benevolent rat and wrote that
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