Probably the most famous of the “lets explain the world using economics!” books which there may be a lot of around at the moment, or it may just be that I’ve noticed them in the last few years and they were moving below my radar before that. Not my favourite of the genre. Too many American examples (which is fair enough as the authors are Americans, just didn’t suit me this time) and too many things that seemed to concentrate on the sensational aspects. Didn’t find it well rounded I guess.

I’ll still probably take time to read the recently released follow up sometime though as it was interesting and well written and made me think even when I was disagreeing with it.