To be honest (as someone who gets most of her news from the Today program) I'd not come across him until Lil mentioned the book on her blog. I've now signed up for his blog feed so I shall reserve judgment until I've read more than one of his posts!

I did feel the book skirted a fine line between being readable and over-indulging in polemic. I suspect that with more exposure to his writing I might have stronger opinions about which side of the line it fell.

Bad economics would be great. I've had people try to explain short-selling and naked short-selling to me several times. I think I've grasped how one of them works, but I'm not sure which. As for the rest of economics - I think I've just about got a grip on how supply and demand interact in general terms....