The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How To Run-or Ruin-an Economy (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
In this book, Tim Harford has a change in style, writing as a dialogue. He also has a change in content, no longer regaling us with tales of odd and interesting ways in which economic researchers have been viewing and reporting the world, but looking more at what might be involved in running an economy; moving from the worlds of behavioural and microeconomics to the much vaguer world of macroeconomics. No concrete conclusions, no definite 'things to do' or 'things to watch' when running an economy, though, as macroeconomics turns out to still be a work in progress, far more empirical and lacking a firm, agreed, theoretical basis. I have to admit that, unfortunately, I didn' like this book as much as the first, nor did I find it likewise interesting. I found it all too theoretical and impractical, except for the example of the nanny clearly, because it concerns us, but it is as if, in the wave of the success of the first book, the author had wanted to repeat but he was sensationally short of ideas .....Devo ammettere che purtroppo, questo libro non mi é piaciuto tanto quanto il primo, né mi ha parimenti interessato. Ho trovato tutto troppo teorico e poco pratico, eccetto l'esempio delle baby sitter chiaramente, anche perché ci riguarda da vicino, ma é come se, sulla scia del successo del primo libro, l'autore avesse voluto bissare ma fosse stato clamorosamente a corto di idee.....
What do You think about The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How To Run-or Ruin-an Economy (2013)?
Good overview of macro, though wish the book had gotten a bit into the details...
—cherrytrash
Illuminating, but still there are things I don't understand.
—AAK
