Playboy Interview: George Gilder

August, 1981

In early March of this year, the Associated Press ran a photo that was widely picked up by the afternoon dailies. It showed an exuberant Ronald Reagan (this was before the attempt on his life) visiting the hospital bed of the ailing Senator Robert Dole and presenting him, as a get-well gift, a recently published book: George Gilder's "Wealth and Poverty."When the President of the United States makes a public presentation of a book on economics to the chairman of the Senate Finance Comm...