information, and also, books about claude shannon, which is by james book called information and by george dysonon mr. turned and mr. shannon. claude shannon is a great figure from bell labs who i've been following for decades. i have studied telephone and internet and this required me to master information theory. and i discovered that information theory is perfectly aligned to economics and actually gives a better way of explaining capitalism than the existing models that are based on a false imitation of determining physical theories. it's not a material system, it is an information system. just as a key measure of information under claude shannon's theory is news or unexpected bits or a surprise, so in capitalism, key factor is profit, which is the surprising upside of entrepreneurial creativity. these books by james

dyson in for ed shultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. > thank y. in 2008 when the republicans were looking for a candidate to be their presidential nominee to succeed president georgew. bush, the guy who was supposed to win in '08, the guy who was the early beltway favorite was fred thompson. fred thompson who was an actor on "law and order" and who is a large man and had a very deep voice and who looks very presidential-ish from a distance on tv. and i've always thought that the fred thompson mania of the 2008 presidential race, the sort of pundit mania over the prospects for fred thompson were largely based on what he looked like and he's a big guy and has this big great voice. in terms of his resume, what he was known for was being an actor on "law and order." he had been a lobiest for decades on washington. that usually means you have represented some unpolitically correct clients. in his case some abortion rights clients when he was trying to run as an anti-abortion rights politician. in addition to bb a lobbyist and the guy on tv, he served one and a half terms in the u.s. senate. but honestly his time in the senate was characterized by no real accomplishment

dyson in for ed shultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> thank you. in 2008 when the republicans were looking for a candidate to be their presidential nominee to succeed president george