My 10 Favorite Books of 2013

Run don't walk to buy all of these.

by Rod D. Martin
December 31, 2013

This is my end-of-year review of the best books I read this year.  They weren't all published in 2013 (though some were), nor are they everything I read in 2013; but I did read them in 2013 and hope you will read them in 2014. Moreover, I am leaving out the Bible, which is obviously my favorite book every year.   I submit them in no particular order.

1. Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World, George Gilder

Okay, okay: there's certainly an order to this first one.  This is the book of the year, and one of the books of the century.  In Knowledge and Power, the inimitable George Gilder -- tech guru, Christian, foster son of David Rockefeller, co-creator of supply-side economics and Ronald Reagan's most-quoted living author -- posits an economics rooted in information theory, and in the process corrects all economists before him, rewriting much of what we think we know and particularly clarifying the…