Wealth Creators

by Gerald A. Gunderson

Book Overview

Examines the emergence and role of the entrepreneur in the growth of America from the colonial era to modern times. It is a reprint of "The Wealth Creators." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525247297
• ISBN13: 9780525247296
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

America's Economic Genius Revealed

What a disappointment to learn that this book is out of print. I no longer have my copy, as three years ago I gave this book to an Afrikaaner visitor who wished to understand America. He assured me I had made an excellent choice.An entrepreneurial history from our colonial period forward, this text presents the American economic phenomenon as a classical case history. A lucid presentation of the personal and cultural wealth deriving from the custodial responsibility of ownership, it is an economic history which reads like a novel.Not previously interested in the dismal science, my South African friend is today an avid proponent of Laissez-Faire capitalism living (Andre, I trust you have not been killed...) in a neo-communist war-zone. And, I find myself in Amerika writing a review for a 'dead' book.Read Von Mises....