Economists can be bad for your Health

George Brockway has long demonstrated that questions of economists can profitably be asked and challenges to prevailing assumptions humanely posed. With wit, erudition, and the steadfast opinion that economics is the study of human interactions and the values that define us, he wades into waters most of us contentedly leave to the so-called experts.

• Trust in life
• The fear of full employment
• The productivity scam
• Are you naturally unemployed?
• Bankers have the classic cola
• Life, liberty, and property
• Who killed the Savings and Loans?
• What happened to Jimmy Carter
• In for a penny, in for a pound
• New ways to get rich
• Go and catch a falling dollar
• Junk bonds and watered stock
• Why not meet the payroll?
• Economists can be bad for your health
• In pursuit of a fiscal fantasy
• Starving all the way from the bank
• Playing the China card
• Trickle-down greed
• The morals of the marketplace
• Bishops move diagonally
• No concordance
• The Reserve takes flight once again
• The Oktoberfest of 1987
• Schumpeter revisited
• The affluent society twenty-five years later
• The last chapter in Keynes
• Envoi

Funny and enlightning reading.

What is most scary, is that when I update this review in 2010, I realise what is said in here is as valid today as when it was written in 1995.

A short book well worth reading.