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Eat the Rich

Eat the Rich
P. J. O'Rourke

Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics is a 1998 book by P. J. O'Rourke which explains economics in a humorous way. Its chapters include Good Capitalism , Bad Capitalism , Good socialism , Bad socialism , and an intermission on "Economics 101", teaching facts that your economics professor didn't tell you, including the "ten less basic rules of economics". Subsequent chapters are on How to make everything out of nothing , How to make nothing out of everything , How to reform an economy and Eat the rich, the last an encomium to capitalism.

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“Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.”

P. J. O'Rourke book Eat the Rich

Eat the Rich (1999)

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“When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state … This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.”

P. J. O'Rourke book Eat the Rich

Eat the Rich (1999)

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