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An Economist Walks Into a Brothel by Allison Schrager
BATB score: 0.15/10 1st place winner for *2019 Bad Book List* Extremely wordy. Disappointing content. Intellectual sleeping lullaby. A lot of "me, myself, I" anecdotes. Unfortunate amplification of small nonessential topics. To be fair, I read to page 50/200. I can not go any page further. The book deserve to be burnt. Best for: an instagrammable book cover photo Best to: read the Freakonomics series instead if you haven't


Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo
BATB score: 8.8/10 π Salute to all the field studies, data-driven research, and real-life experiments that must have taken 5+ years to conclude into this thick insightful research book! Best to: know that it's a research study on why the poor remains poor from one test hypothesis to another and another across developing countries via numerous rural schemes π #nerdalert Best for: capital shifters composing societal schemes to comprehend the roles of the three Is' - ignorance


WHEN: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
BATB score: 10/10 π *Daniel H Pink is my favorite non-fiction author* Best as: nerdy, scientific, experimental, behavioral economics, entertaining, fun read Best for: you need to digest and think of further optimizing implementation from these insights or else itβs just useless fun read Best to: knowing that it is the last piece of chocolate, that last piece is the most yummy nom nom Best quotes: βIf you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your st
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