Ika's review
The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
by Tim Harford
Ika's review
The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford
Ika's review
rating:
In the spirit of becoming a recovering shopaholic, I really needed to find out what drives my consumptive, materialistic, hedonistic, cosmopolitan buying habit. Why do I – the present tense honestly indicates that these are still my preferred way of life – choose Starbucks over the so-called warung kopi? Taste, I believe, is something to be enjoyed, not something to be explained.
But with a pure intention of finding out the naked truth behind my – and of course your - preferred lifestyle, and to give myself an edge in putting a halt to Starbucks, Zara, Miss Sixty, and Barneys which are continuously after the money in my purse, I do need an explanation behind my consumption habit. So I went to the local bookstore, picked up The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford, and to quote David Bodanis: “Reading this book is like spending an ordinary day wearing x-ray goggles.” Just what I need.
Let’s say that we’re not blaming the expensive taste on the taste, but on ...more
But with a pure intention of finding out the naked truth behind my – and of course your - preferred lifestyle, and to give myself an edge in putting a halt to Starbucks, Zara, Miss Sixty, and Barneys which are continuously after the money in my purse, I do need an explanation behind my consumption habit. So I went to the local bookstore, picked up The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford, and to quote David Bodanis: “Reading this book is like spending an ordinary day wearing x-ray goggles.” Just what I need.
Let’s say that we’re not blaming the expensive taste on the taste, but on ...more
