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The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
from Sterling
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Too little commentary 
This book is the verbatim texts of several classics. That's sort of cool, but to be honest, reading 18th century prose is slow. Very, very slow...
Michael Lewis adds some commentary. Unfortunately, that's only a few pages per book. What is there is generally quite good, but it is far too little. In particular, it would have been interesting to see comments on the actual texts, as opposed to general comments on the authors' lives.
If you really want to read all the classics, it's convenient to have... more info
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Real Price of Everything by Lewis 
This is a complicated book because of its length and
technical verbiage in economics. The outline includes
lengthy dissertations by 5 or more writers in foundational
economic literature and reporting. These are:
1776: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
1798: An Essay on the Principle of Population
by Thomas Malthus
1817: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
by David Ricardo
1899: The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of... more info
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A Good Reference Work 
Despite being an economics/finance geek, who is a fan of Michael Lewis' previous work, especially Moneyball, I was debating whether to buy this. I have already read The Wealth of Nations, which makes up half of this huge book. It is nice to have such a collection of great works together though, and although the vast majority of the writing is just old copyright expired material you can get on the Internet for free, Lewis' commentary does add to it. In addition to being an accomplished writer, the author... more info
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