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Summary: Mandatory reading a must!
Review: Being a senior in high school I read P.J.'s book in my own interests. After reading it I was amazed how much I learned. I suffered an entire year of the mundane and tedious high school economics course without learning one-tenth of knowledge I aquired from this book. We need to make this work of genius the SOLE textbook for ALL high school econ. classes..... Worldwide!!
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Summary: Not his best, but still better than most everyone else
Review: This is not quite as good as some of his others- Holidays in Hell was my favorite, although it is still all the best things about PJ- biting, witty, and usually true. Parts got a little long-winded, but still worth the bucks.
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Summary: All the hard answers.
Review: Another fantastic book from someone who speaks for a whole lot of unrepresented people. Pithy, witty, funny, and full of what used to be called common sense.
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Summary: Economics made me laugh???
Review: Reading this book, I laughed so hard that my wife would make me stop reading. I especially enjoyed his skewering of Economics textbooks, and the chapters on Russia and Hong Kong. The chapter on Cuba is truly disturbed me, even as I laughed. There are truths in this book about the failings of socialist systems that would make the most die-hard leftist squirm. The last chapter is a good summation of the principles of free markets, but comes across as a bit earnest after all of the wisecracks. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and have already re-read several chapters. I will be reading more of his works in the very near future.
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Summary: econ 101 for idiots (like me) and damn funny
Review: this is a VERY funny book (and the keyword is book, oops, i mean funny). although it seems like mr. o'rourke in his college years did not bother to take soci 101 or crim 101, otherwise he would not have put a line like "if you want a donkey,... a pot roast,... a cleaning lady, dont bitch about what the people across the street have. GO AND GET YOUR OWN." i think, not that im critizising, that the author forgot the itzy-bitzy stuff such as racism, discrimination, lack of opportunities, ghettos, etc, etc, etc. and even though i agree with let all who make the buck, keep the buck, i still think that since the government is not about to eliminate povety (and the author states that is so, plus that it can eliminate poverty, apparently with a flip of a switch), let those who have lots of money, give some to those who cannot acquire any, and stop whining about the high taxes. then again, i dont have a job. in conclusion, the only thing that this books is missing is self-criticism. otherwise, genius, absolutely genius.
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Summary: Another great job by my favorite author
Review: P.J. O'Rourke has an extraordinary ability to treat serious subjects with rib-splitting humor.I've read all of his books and I think this is the best since "Parliament of Whores." You'll burst out with belly laughs and you'll think deeply about serious issues as you read this exceptionally well-written book!
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Summary: Laughing and learning at the same time
Review: O'Rourke takes a deadly dry and boring subject, economics, and brings it to hilarious life. Why do economies "work" in some countries and not in others? You'll find out here. Technocrats may find the message simplistic, but that's O'Rourke's whole point - economics is (are?) simple, it's people and their governments who keep screwing things up. This won't make you a better investor, but it may keep you from making some bad travel plans.
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Summary: 1 part comedy, 1 part economics primer, 1 part travelogue
Review: I expected this book to be funnier, but less informative - the jokes are OK, but PJ makes learning basic economic principles pleasant. If I were teaching an introductory economics course, I would make this required reading. PJ makes himself out to be a pretty radical libertarian, but I think this is at least partially because it makes for more amusing remarks - e.g., he believes that Siberia has too much virgin forest, and he thinks Hong Kong is a near ideal society.
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Summary: Eat the boring and get back to what you can be funny about
Review: What happened? The rude, brash and very funny author of "Parliament of whores" and "holidays in hell" goes straight. Fair enough to take a pop at economists, but if you can't be funnier than them then you're in big trouble.A mixture of the uncontroversial-to-obvious - Hong Kong's been a pretty successful economy, Tanzania hasn't - and the very obvious - Albania's a mess. The punchline is that free markets and laws work. Yeah, my sides split too. Most worrying is the tone. OK, you are a libertarian, fellow of the Cato Institute but where are the JOKES? Obviously, not only the PC are po-faced. This book reads like a slightly-more-daring-than-average economics textbook. (that's not very daring). There are about three laugh-out-loud lines in the whole thing vs about that many per page in his earlier books. Finally, claiming that Russia at the moment is anything but a mess is just a joke. But not a funny one. Like the rest of "Eat the Rich".
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Summary: More Paul Theroux than Charles Murray.
Review: I wished it were the other way around, but still entertaining. A quick pleasent read. The description of his trans-Siberian adventure was better than most of what appeared in Theroux's "Pillars of Hercules"; which I bet he read. I was also delighted that he read Adam Smith, and reminded us of the wisdom of this remarkable observer of the human condition. I believe PJ is ready for Charles Murray's "Pursuit of Happiness" (And Good Government).
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