Title: Eat the boring and get back to what you can be funny about
Product 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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