A review by jfranco77
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

3.0

An interesting read if you're not that familiar with economic theory... but if you aren't, why would you start here? I was hoping for more of an "everyday" approach to economics (why coffee is expensive at Starbucks, why you can't find cheap used cars, etc) and the digressions into nationalized health care and world economic policy weren't exactly light reading. That said, the more small-scale stuff that did make it into the book was pretty good. But I'd stick with Freakonomics instead of this one.