{"product_id":"none-of-my-business-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eP. J. O'Rourke\u003c\/b\u003e has written nineteen books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. \u003ci\u003eParliament of Whores\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGive War a Chance\u003c\/i\u003e both reached #1 on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list. He is a contributing editor at the \u003ci\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular panelist on NPR's \u003ci\u003eWait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor-in-chief of the web magazine \u003ci\u003eAmerican Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in rural New England, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461125017874,"sku":"9780802147769","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24ff8ccd-5b96-46f8-ad2a-687c78ebeea9.jpg?v=1730057655","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/none-of-my-business-9780802147769","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}