“P.J. O’Rourke, the former foreign correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine and currently the Mencken Research Fellow at Cato Institute, sums it up humorously in the beginning of his book, Eat the Rich:

"I had one fundamental question about economics: Why do some places prosper and thrive while others just suck? It’s not a matter of brains. No part of the earth (with the possible exception of Brentwood) is dumber than Beverly Hills, and the residents are wading in gravy. In...”

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