Rich and Lost in Prosperia: A Tropical Tale of Market Economics

This book makes the economy more meaningful and easier to understand by portraying it as we experience it: unnoticed in the background of our daily life, yet always influencing it. Economist Doramas Jorge-Calderaon, writing with the non-economist reader in mind, uses the tale of two fictional young entrepreneurs on a tropical island, who go about pursuing their life's dreams. How well the two young men fare has little to do with equations and much to do with trust and trickery, with their dealings with sound and corrupt politicians, entrenched interests and smugglers, and with realizing the fine line separating self-interest from greed.