Title: It's not even interesting
Product review: I just finished reading this book last night. I thought it was terrible. If I wanted to read a bunch of cute anecdotes about random things, I could've read an issue of People Magazine--a peice of "literature" more worthy than this book.I found the only semi-interesting part to be the section about the grad student who lived with the gang. The analysis of the findings are intriguing, but not unexpected or surprising in the least.My main objection is that everything reads like unsubstantiated hearsay. I don't doubt that the economics professor is smart, has an interesting take on things and actually has research to back up his findings, but leaving it up to a journalist to do the writing just dooms a potentially interesting project like this one. In short, the book is dumbed down to an incredible degree. It suffers for that reason because it did not even make me think, "hmmm, that's interesting."
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