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False Economy: A Surprising Economic History Of The World (2009)

by Alan Beattie(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1594488665 (ISBN13: 9781594488665)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: I read this in two parts, before and after I studied an economics course, but you don't need an economics background to understand what Beattie is writing about here. Although I did feel a little frisson of excitement when I recognised jargon and understood the concepts.A very interesting read, especially in respect of the international trade in invisible water and his ideas about food-security. And also completely worth reading for the comparison between the relative usefulness (or adaptability) of giant pandas and domestic cats.
review 2: For those who did not have the fortune to read "Guns, Germs, and Steel," here is a book that helps provide a similar analysis. It's an important idea, that nations are poor or rich not because of their geographical location... more or the fact that they "exist on a poverty-stricken continent" or due to the biology of their residents, but on the choices they make. Or, in fewer terms:"Why Argentina could have been a contender, and why Giant Pandas Fail." less

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