An Insider's Guide to the Economy
Book Review: Tim Harford, "The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why The Rich Are Rich, The Poor Are Poor -- And Why You Can Never Buy A Decent Used Car!", Oxford University Press, 2006. ~and~ Tim Harford, "The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run -- Or Ruin -- An Economy", Riverhead Books, 2014. The last time on my blog that I reviewed two books together was more than a year ago, when I wrote " Of Animals and Machines ". Both of those books ( Animal Spirits and The Second Machine Age ) were about economics; this time, both books are about economics again -- but by one author. Tim Harford is an economist, journalist, TED speaker , and author of several books. His first book, The Undercover Economist , is probably his most famous. The sequel, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back , arrived almost a decade later. The main difference between these books is that the former focused more on microeconomics, whereas the latter focused more on macroec