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Eat the rich

Author: P J O'Rourke
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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The nation's leading political satirist traverses the world, exploring the power of money, ruminating on the world's varieties of capitalism and socialism, and offering his own hilarious primer on economics. The book explains the fundamentals of economics. The author traveled the world from Wall Street to Main Street, from Shanghai to Albania, in search of the ultimate answer to the question, "Why do some economies  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Humor
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: P J O'Rourke
ISBN: 0871137194 9780871137197 0871137607 9780871137609
OCLC Number: 39391084
Description: xviii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Love, death, and money --
Good capitalism: Wall Street --
Bad capitalism: Albania --
Good socialism: Sweden --
Bad socialism: Cuba --
From beatnik to business major: taking Econ 101 for kicks --
How (or how not) to reform (maybe) an economy (if there is one): Russia --
How to make nothing from everything: Tanzania --
How to make everything from nothing: Hong Kong --
How to have the worst of both worlds: Shanghai --
Eat the rich.
Responsibility: P.J. O'Rourke.

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The nation's leading political satirist traverses the world, exploring the power of money, ruminating on the world's varieties of capitalism and socialism, and offering his own hilarious primer on economics. The book explains the fundamentals of economics. The author traveled the world from Wall Street to Main Street, from Shanghai to Albania, in search of the ultimate answer to the question, "Why do some economies thrive, while others just suck?" America's favorite political humorist leads readers on a hysterical whirlwind tour, from the "good capitalism" of Wall Street to the "bad socialism" of Cuba, in search of an answer to the age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?"

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