In his most ambitious undertaking since "Parliament of Whores", the man who the "Wall Street Journal" calls "the funniest man in America" tackles a subject that warms the heart of capitalists and socialists alike: money. Sampling "good capitalism" on Wall Street and "bad capitalism" in Albania, "good socialism" in Sweden and "bad socialism" in Cuba--with stopovers in Hong Kong, Moscow, and Africa, and his own version of Econ 101 thrown in, O'Rourke finds hilarity in every corner--and will leave listeners laughing all the ...
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In his most ambitious undertaking since "Parliament of Whores", the man who the "Wall Street Journal" calls "the funniest man in America" tackles a subject that warms the heart of capitalists and socialists alike: money. Sampling "good capitalism" on Wall Street and "bad capitalism" in Albania, "good socialism" in Sweden and "bad socialism" in Cuba--with stopovers in Hong Kong, Moscow, and Africa, and his own version of Econ 101 thrown in, O'Rourke finds hilarity in every corner--and will leave listeners laughing all the way to the bank. Abridged.
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If you want to understand economics better without actually taking any economics courses, read Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics. P.J. O'Rourke does the heavy studying for you. Or actually he gets someone else to. He does read some dense economics texts and pushes them aside deciding there are better ways to gain understanding.
So off he goes in search of answers. The results are chapters like "Good Capitalism: Wall St.," "Bad Capitalism: Albania," "Good Socialism: Sweden," "Bad Socialism: Cuba," "How to Make Nothing from Everything: Tanzania," and "How to Make Everything from Nothing: Hong Kong." In each country O'Rourke seeks to find the reason behind its success or poverty. He talks with experts, examines the markets, chats with the man in the street and makes sense of statistics. After reading, I feel smarter and it was a painless experience, quite unexpected when I think about economics.
RRDJ
Aug 16, 2007
Very funny, very good. As always O Rourke is right on.
JimM
Apr 3, 2007
Eat this book
PJ up to his usual scribe antics. He's often entertaining and always hysterically funny. You will learn things too. Agree or disagree with him politically, but there is no denying he knows his craft, and does his homework. Take the short course in world economics and read this one. You'll want to read more of his stuff.
