The economics of life

This McGraw-Hill publication printed by a firm called Quebecor has the most unreadable text I have seen in a book. Not only are parts of nearly every letter missing, but the ink has also bled into hairy additions. That it has been printed on recycled paper may have been part of the problem, as is surely the choice of font (Cochin), but I suspect my copy was one of the later ones in a printing batch that was too large.
Getting a badly printed book is of course a risk one takes when buying on the net. And as one does not know for sure whether the copy one has received is really worse than other copies one is reluctant to demand a refund. Prospective buyers of this book should try to make sure they get a copy that is actually readable.

Collects Becker's columns for Business Week through Summer 1996. For articles after that point, see http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbecker/Businessweek/bw.html