Honestly, this book is a chore to slog through—just another hack journalist eyeballing a few cherry-picked figures and stitching together half-baked theories. The author clearly hasn’t the foggiest how the cogs of macroeconomics mesh; every surprising headline is treated like fresh revelation, when really they’re just rearranging deck-chairs on the Titanic.
Yet somehow it’s a bestseller in Japan—probably because it gives folks a target for venting their collective angst. If this truly reflects the average level of economic savvy, then perhaps this generation of readers has exactly what it deserves. Bravo, Japan—enjoy your pop-corn economics!