Tough read. This is not a _Freakonomics_ or Sowell's _Basic Economics_. You have to engage the econ part of the brain and think hard. (There is actually a part of the brain that fires heavily in Econ majors and rarely in other college students). Therefore I hated it and felt dumb, and missed a lot.

But after the first third, he turns away from the blackboard, sits down in his armchair, and gives example after example of application in the real world. That was refreshing and I enjoyed it. Still, he refers back to the cost, price, and demand curves to explain why econ can help you understand the application problem, so you still have to think. Boo, no thank you.

On the plus side, I made it through and I learned a bit of real econ, as opposed to reading the other armchair econ books, which teach you how to understand stuff, but don't teach you econ.