Bhavya S S itibaren Göynücek, 05900 Göynücek/Amasya, Turkey
Just finished this over the weekend. I like Ann Quindlen's books, they are good at intertwining life's little insights with interesting story lines.
It's completely accessible without being simplistic. Wheelan just breaks it down. By the end of the book he has gone through a lot of very complicated issues: trade, globalization, poverty, governments, subsidies, personal incentives, student loans, and many more. And it's not boring -- he illustrates points about economics using examples like the economic reasons why Michael Jordan doesn't change his own oil and writes of spitting up his Starbucks in outrage as he learns about the suffering of coffee growers. He discusses the disparities inherently produced by capitalism and discusses their reasons in an apolitical way.