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Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
Written by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
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The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world.
Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What a terrible premise and even worse execution. Like getting cornered by two frat boys who try to explain the global political economy of the last century to you between jello shots.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Mildly amusing but taught me nothing new except maybe the bit about reforms in Georgia.