{"id":7391,"date":"2003-12-09T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/09\/7391\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:15:25","slug":"7391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/09\/7391\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  <i>Eat the Rich<\/i> by P.J. O&#8217;Rourke (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read one economics book this millenium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008UX2W78\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B008UX2W78&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=b5f65755885e6838875e27cb6c3a4d1f\" target=\"new\">this should be it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke redoes his <i>Holidays in Hell<\/i> schtick by visiting, and examining the economies of, a number of disparate nations.  Sweden, Hong Kong, Tanzania, Russia, Albania, America (well, <i>Wall Street<\/i>), and Cuba.   He rates them as good capitalist, bad capitalism, good (in 1998) socialism, or bad socialism.   Each location gets its own chapter, and he visits each.  I don&#8217;t know about you, but I wouldn&#8217;t go to Albania to discover how it&#8217;s doing in capitalism, but O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s <i>nuts<\/i>.  And a good writer.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any bones to pick with it.  Read it.  An amusing composite of research and travel with commentary that I agree with.  Hey, I paid $8.00 for the book in a used book store.  That should tell you how much I appreciate O&#8217;Rourke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read one economics book this millenium, this should be it. O&#8217;Rourke redoes his Holidays in Hell schtick by visiting, and examining the economies of, a number of disparate nations. Sweden, Hong Kong, Tanzania, Russia, Albania, America (well, Wall Street), and Cuba. He rates them as good capitalist, bad capitalism, good (in 1998) socialism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22254,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/22254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}