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Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, by George Gilder (Simon & Schuster, 426 pp., $19.95)

A reader invariably emerges from one of George Gilder’s books intellectually reinvigorated. His latest, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, is no exception. In Wealth and Poverty and The Spirit of Enterprise he brilliantly championed entrepreneurial capitalism as the wellspring of economic abundance. Now he takes readers on an excursion deep into the soul of modern high technology. In the process, Gilder administers a powerful antidote to the dreary assertions of academic and media doomsayers who, in what they call the “age of limits,” portentously proclaim the decline of the United States. American capitalism is not only alive and well, says Gilder, but poised to lead the world into a new era of abundance and creativity.

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Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, by George Gilder (Simon & Schuster, 426 pp., $19.95)

A reader invariably emerges from one of George Gilder’s books intellectually reinvigorated. His latest, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, is no exception. In Wealth and Poverty and The Spirit of Enterprise he brilliantly championed entrepreneurial capitalism as the wellspring of economic abundance. Now he takes readers on an excursion deep into the soul of modern high technology. In the process, Gilder administers a powerful antidote to the dreary assertions of academic and media doomsayers who, in what they call the “age of limits,” portentously proclaim the decline of the United States. American capitalism is not only alive and well, says Gilder, but poised to lead the world into a new era of abundance and creativity.