{"product_id":"none-of-my-business-p-j-orourke-9780802147769","title":"None of My Business","description":"After decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet--business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them.\u003cp\u003e Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don't buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there's a book that can do that, you shouldn't buy any books because you probably can't read.) P.J.'s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e you in his chapter \"How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other.\" He proposes \"A Way to Raise Taxes That We'll All Love\"--a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high tech innovation with a chapter on \"Unnovations,\" which asks, \"The Internet--whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?\" He misunderstands bitcoin, which seems \"like a weird scam invented by strange geeks with weaponized slide rules in the high school Evil Math Club.\" He closes with a fanciful short story about the morning that P.J. wakes up and finds that all the world's goods and services are free  This is P.J. at his finest, a book not to be missed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e P. J. O'Rourke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802147763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802147769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"P. J. O'Rourke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044039979263,"sku":"9780802147769","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a4d2b5f-1c9a-4e91-99ae-194b955fdddd.jpg?v=1684970579","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/none-of-my-business-p-j-orourke-9780802147769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}