Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
by P. J. O’Rourke
You can read an economics textbook, or you can read P.J. O’Rourke’s Eat the Rich, a very funny take on the perennial question economists ask: why are some countries so rich and others so poor? In memorable opening lines, O’Rourke posited, “It’s not about brains. No place on earth…is dumber than Beverly Hills and they’re wading in gravy. In Russia, meanwhile, where chess is a spectator sport, they’re boiling stones for soup.”
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