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Glice, there is nothing advanced about it. There's no math or jargon or anything. It's light reading - the entertaining findings of a slightly unorthodox economist, that's it. There's a chapter about baby names called "A Roshanda by Any Other Name." That should give you an idea of what it's like. And I hear they've been using it as a textbook in some Econ intro classes as an antidote to reading graphs and memorizing terminology.
On a side note, my friend has done some work on internet gambling. Maybe he'll write another book that people can read on the train. Uh.
I like popular science books. It's fun to dip into areas very diffferent and unrelated to your own. Economics is generally something into which I'm not very interested in delving. Normally I read books on biology (evolution), linguistics, philosophy, and shit like that when I'm not studying music.
But there are a lot of people that have side interests in which they are experts. John Cage was an expert on mushrooms. Nabokov was an expert on butterflies and moths. Morton Feldman was an expert on Turkish rugs. Any other examples?
I should pick something. I choose Victorian doorknobs. Time to go to the library.
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