1. George Franklin Gilder is an American investor, author, economist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute.
20 Facts About George Gilder
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George Gilder is the chairman of George Gilder Fund Management, LLC.
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George Gilder is a great-grandson of designer Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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George Gilder spent most of his childhood with his mother, Anne Spring Denny, and his stepfather, Gilder Palmer, on a dairy farm in Tyringham, Massachusetts.
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George Gilder attended Hamilton School in New York City, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, graduating in 1962.
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George Gilder later returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and edited the Ripon Forum, the newspaper of the liberal Republican Ripon Society.
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George Gilder worked as a spokesman for the liberal Republican Senator Charles Mathias, as anti-war protesters surrounded the capital; some eventually scared Gilder out of his apartment.
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George Gilder moved to Harvard Square the following year, and he became a writer who modeled himself after Joan Didion.
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George Gilder wrote a book extending the ideas of his Visible Man into the realm of economics, to balance his theory of poverty with a theory of wealth.
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George Gilder contributed to the development of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute's Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and as a frequent contributor to Laffer's economic reports and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.
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George Gilder discussed emerging trends in several books and his newsletter, the Gilder Technology Report.
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George Gilder wrote the books Microcosm, about Carver Mead and the CMOS microchip revolution; Telecosm, about the promise of fiber optics; and The Silicon Eye, about the Foveon X3 sensor, a digital camera imager chip.
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George Gilder is an investor in private companies and serves as the chairman of the advisory board in Israel-based ASOCS that he discovered during his research for Israel Test.
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George Gilder moved to New Orleans and worked in the mornings for Ben Toledano, Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1972 and the party's nominee for mayor of New Orleans in 1970.
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George Gilder has praised mass immigration as an economic boon in both the US and Israel.
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George Gilder bought the conservative political monthly magazine The American Spectator from its founder, Emmett Tyrrell, in the summer of 2000, switching the magazine's focus from politics to technology.
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George Gilder has addressed audiences from Washington, DC, to the Vatican, and he has appeared at conferences, public policy events, and media outlets.
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In Wealth and Poverty, George Gilder extended the sociological and anthropological analysis of his early books in which he had advocated for the socialization of men into service to women through work and marriage.
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George Gilder wove these sociological themes into the economic policy prescriptions of supply-side economics.
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In 1991 George Gilder cofounded the Discovery Institute with Bruce Chapman.