As I've said earlier, I read this book on day 2 of jury duty and I think I was already halfway through by 10 AM, so it's a pretty quick read.
I was pretty much fascinated by the whole thing. I most enjoyed the sordid subjects. In the first book, there was a whole thing on the economics of dealing drugs. This time, there's a whole chapter on the economics of prostitution. I just thought it was interesting how the price of prostitutes have plummeted since the sexual revolution and the whole concept of season prostitution was new to me. Apparently, there's a huge surge in prostitution around the Fourth of July. And apparently, it's good for prostitutes to have pimps; there's more money and fewer arrests.
Now, there's a controversial chapter on global warming on possible solutions to that. It didn't really bother me, but it might considered too radical. Just a warning.
In general, there are good explanations of basic economics and how it applies to all of these situations, which is good for me as I never took economics in college. And it's amazing to me the correlations that can be picked out of all the data that we now have.
So in general, I would recommend the book, especially if you enjoyed the first one.
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