None of My Business by O'Rourke, P.J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Also by P. J. O’Rourke Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword: Why I’m Not Rich and You Aren’t Either Section I: How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other

Section II: Money and Banking

Introduction The Strange, Shape-Shifting Symbol of Value My Own Personal Central Bank Negative Interest Rates—Not Only Wrong but Evil Debt Jubilee

Section III: Mutant Capitalism

Introduction: The Mutants One Good Thing About Mutant Capitalists: They Aren’t Playing Monopoly What Are Corporations For?

Section IV: The Transition

Introduction: The Digital Age and Which Digit It’s Giving Us A Brief History of Economic Transitions A Blockhead Confronts the Blockchain What’s the Connection? What Has the Digital Revolution Done to Print Media? Five Lessons About the Digital Economy from a Member of the Digital Generation Innovation—It’s All in Your Head Innovations That Get No Respect Unnovations Six Geniuses (Plus Some Cartoon Animators) Try to See into the Future A Ray of Hope in the Contest Between Man and Machine

Section V: Consumption

Introduction: Some Thoughts on the History of Trade The Price of Being Middle Class Armchair Predictions About Consumer Trends Consumer Trends Among the “Grumpies” Consumer Trends Among the “Grumpies,” Part 2 Summing Up American Consumer Trends … All the Money in the World

Section VI: Random Walk

Introduction Five Things I Know About China Doubts About Asia Thoughts While Cleaning the Chicken Coop Six Lessons from a Man on Horseback Sympathy for the Devil Reform or Deform? Free-for-All!

Acknowledgments Back Cover