Logic and Economics: Free Growth and Other Surprises

Simply put, this book is about my personal ideas in economics. It's about lessons learned from my father, J. Paul Getty, as well as my own experiences. I love the free market and the chance to prove ideas, and the fact that innovation is changing the world as we know it.

While science tends to predict the rule from the data, philosophy tends to reverse the direction. The bottom-up scientific method doesn't get far in economics because market data reveal little about human capital, which is s...