by P. J. O'Rourke
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A conservative, prosperous American journalist gadding around the world laughing at all the ways less successful nations screw up their economy--this might not sound like the recipe for a great read, unless you're Rush Limbaugh, but if that journalist is P.J. O'Rourke you can be sure that you'll enjoy the ride even if you don't agree with the politics. Although Eat the Rich is subtitled A Treatise on Economics, O'Rourke spends relatively few pages tackling the complexities of monetary theory. He's much happier when flying from Sweden to Hong Kong, then on to Tanzania and Moscow, gleefully recording every economic goof he can find. When he visits post-Soviet Russia and finds a country that is as messed up by capitalism as it was by communism, O'Rourke mixes jokes about black-market shoes with disturbing insights into a nation on the verge of collapse. P.J. O'Rourke is more than a humourist, he's an experienced international journalist with a lot of frequent-flyer miles and this gives even his funniest riffs on the world's problems a startling ring of truth.
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The American satirist and commentator toured the world for two years in pursuit of money, the way it's made and the effect it has. Since he is a right-wing believer in the free market, it is no surprise that he manages to discover good capitalism on Wall Street, but he also finds bad capitalism in Albania and good socialism in Sweden. Whatever corner of the world he is investigating, O'Rourke manages to make the subject of money and its place at the core of society hysterically funny. As with all the best satirists, he uses his comic genius to reveal a supremely important observation about the human condition. (Kirkus UK)
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