The Logic of Life

Overall a pretty good read, but I think this type of book might be reaching it's end. Or maybe just the end of interest for myself. This one is very self-referential of the genre, chatting about the Wisdom of Crowds and Freakonomics in various places.

The basic premise is pretty interesting taking a rule of general economics - that everyone thinks rationally in an overall way - and applying it to lots of different stuff. The bits about cities and why they are continuing to grow despite wireless and flexible working meaning they shouldn't be at first glance; the chapters on racism and crime are also interesting and work well to the central premise.

However the chapter on politics is really poor and just feels like the insight of rational thinking has been jammed onto it and some weak conclusions drawn out of it to make it sounds like its right.

Overall - worth a read but this type of book does seem to be running out of steam.