The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

With a title like this, much is advertised. It like you're going to learn the secret of existence. Instead, what we get is a one dimensional analysis. It's an interesting one, at times, but it's just one perspective and often an unconvincing one.

The subtitle refers to an irrational world but the author doesn't really believe in one. "Seemingly irrational" until he came along to show the underlying rationality, is more like it. In some respects it's like ev-psych, the explanation of all our behavior based on which mental patterns were more likely to promote survival in the infancy of our species. In the end we get a bunch of just-so stories, convincing to one who starts out believing them but dubious to others.

One of the most peculiar arguments in the book is that our votes don't count, or more economically speaking, have no value. The same argument could be used to prove our lives are worthless as well and, statistically speaking, if I, or better yet, the author of this book, had never existed, the world would not be significantly different.

This is an experiment that we can't really conduct, but as an approximation to it, I suggest no one read his books and we'll see how that works out.