Whether you're already familiar with free-market economics or the concepts are brand new to you, The Haiku Economist will entertain, inform, and delight you. Among the nuggets you will learn: Haiku is a Japanese poetic form that presents ideas and images in a succinct 17 syllables. Can profound economic principles be presented in such a tiny package? This book answers with a resounding "Yes!" This little book packs a big punch: 101 short poems, each loaded with insight and food for thought. Economic wisdom-in just 17 syllables! - from the introduction by Forbes.com columnist Art Carden"A valuable contribution to economic literacy… we'll have a better world for it."