If you only need the core ideas:

Though written over 30 years ago, Unlimited Wealth anticipated:

Modern economists like Erik Brynjolfsson ( The Second Machine Age ) and thinkers like Peter Diamandis ( Abundance ) echo Pilzer’s themes.

Pilzer distinguishes between natural resources (finite) and wealth (what humans create from knowledge). For example: Oil was useless until we invented the internal combustion engine. Thus, human knowledge transforms matter into wealth.

As Pilzer predicted (and later expanded on in The Next Trillion), the greatest wealth creation opportunities lie in intellectual distribution, not physical distribution. In a world of abundance, the bottleneck is not making products, but educating consumers on how to use them. This is where the modern entrepreneur thrives.

Contrary to Malthusian fears, Pilzer claims technology does not cause permanent unemployment. Instead, it destroys old jobs and creates new, higher-paying ones – but only if workers retrain.