{"id":7,"date":"2013-09-09T04:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2017-12-15T01:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T01:21:21","slug":"review-dear-undercover-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/review-dear-undercover-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dear Undercover Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"line-height: 27px;\" src=\"https:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1320418034l\/6004848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"270\" \/><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6004848-dear-undercover-economist\">Dear Undercover Economist: Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life&#8217;s Other Challenges<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Tim Harford.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointing. I&#8217;m a fan of Tim Harford, having enjoyed the original <em><a title=\"Undercover Economist by Tim Harford\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/70420.Undercover_Economist\"><em>Undercover Economist<\/em><\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a title=\"Adapt by Tim Harford\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10158633.Adapt\">Adapt<\/a><\/em>, as well as being a regular &#8220;More or Less&#8221; listener. This format didn&#8217;t really seem to work though. The replies are too short to cover the economic concepts properly. Worse, the concepts often seem to have been shoehorned in. I realise that&#8217;s partly for humorous effect, but to be honest I found it to wear thin rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few genuinely funny and insightful replies. However I would recommend the original <em>Undercover Economist<\/em> book as far more informative.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u00a02\/5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Undercover Economist: Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life&#8217;s Other Challenges\u00a0by Tim Harford. Disappointing. I&#8217;m a fan of Tim Harford, having enjoyed the original Undercover Economist\u00a0and\u00a0Adapt, as well as being a regular &#8220;More or Less&#8221; listener. This format didn&#8217;t really seem to work though. The replies are too short to cover the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/review-dear-undercover-economist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Dear Undercover Economist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}