Eat The Rich - A Treatise on Economics

America's most famous satirist is back, with a hilarious and provocative look at money. In his international best-seller 'Parliament of Whores', P. J. O'Rourke set out to explain the entire US government. In his most ambitious undertaking since, the man whom the Wall Street Journal calls the funniest writer in America tackles a subject that warns the heart of capitalists and socialists alike: Money. I wanted to know why some parts of the earth prosper and others suck, writes O'Rourke, to explain his two-year around-the-world sojourn in search of the bottom line. Sampling 'good capitalism' on Wall Street and 'bad capitalism' in Albania, 'good socialism' in Sweden and 'bad socialism' in Cuba - with stopovers in Hong Kong, Moscow and Africa and his own version of Econ 101 thrown in - he finds hilarity in every corner, and will leave you laughing all the way to the bank.