In his national best-seller Parliament of Whores, P.J. O'Rourke set out to explain the entire U.S. government. In his most ambitious undertaking since, the man who The Wall Street Journal calls "the funniest writer in America" tackles a subject that warms 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.
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In his national best-seller Parliament of Whores, P.J. O'Rourke set out to explain the entire U.S. government. In his most ambitious undertaking since, the man who The Wall Street Journal calls "the funniest writer in America" tackles a subject that warms 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.