God Wants You to Be Rich: How and Why Everyone Can Enjoy Material and Spiritual Wealth in Our Abundant World

In God Wants You to Be Rich, bestselling author Paul Zane Pilzer provides an original, provocative view of how to accumulate wealth and why it is beneficial to all of humankind. A theology of economics, this book explores why God wants each of us to be rich in every way — physically, emotionally, and financially — and shows the way to prosperity, well-being, and peace of mind.

In God Wants You to Be Rich, bestselling author Paul Zane Pilzer provides an original, provocative view of how to accumulate wealth and why it is beneficial to all of humankind. A theology of economics, this book explores why God wants each of us to be rich in every way — physically, emotionally, and financially — and shows the way to prosperity, well-being, and peace of mind.

Pilzer explains that the foundation of our economic system is based on our Judeo-Christian heritage and includes chapters on a variety of financial issues from outsourcing and unemployment to the rise of technology and real estate.

Table of Contents

1. God Wants You to Be Rich

2. The Covenant

3. The Search for Camelot

4. Economic Alchemy

5. What's Happening to Our Jobs

6. The Workplace of the 21st Century

7. Money

8. Government

9. Leadership

Appendix: The Principles and Six Laws of Economic Alchemy

Paul Zane Pilzer completed college in three years and received his M.B.A. from Wharton Graduate Business School in fifteen months at age twenty-two. At age twenty-four, he was appointed a professor at New York University.

While employed as Citibank's youngest officer at age twenty-two and its youngest vice-president at twenty-five, Pilzer started several entrepreneurial businesses and earned his first million before age twenty-six.

He has been an appointed economic adviser in two presidential administrations. In 1985 he testified before Congress, warning that the S & L problem would grow to a $200 billion-dollar disaster. Congress didn't listen, and in 1989 Pilzer wrote Other People's Money (Simon & Schuster), which was critically acclaimed by The New York Times, The Economist magazine, and Nobel prizewinner John Kenneth Galbraith.

Pilzer's second book, Unlimited Wealth (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991, 1994), explained how we live in a world of unlimited physical resources because of rapidly advancing technology. After reading Unlimited Wealth, the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, said that he was "amazed at Pilzer's business capacity" and his "ability to put it into layman's terms." Unlimited Wealth has been published in Japan, Taiwan, and the Russian Republic.

But the greatest accolades have come for God Wants You to Be Rich, which appeared on The New York Times Business bestseller list, was featured on the cover of national magazines such as Success, and was the subject of a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal.

Today, Pilzer is a contributing editor to two economic journals, anadjunct professor at New York University, and the Founder and Publisher of Zane Publishing, Inc., a leading CD-ROM educational publisher.

He has been a regular commentator on CNN and National Public Radio, and has appeared several times on the Larry King Live! television program.