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(More customer reviews)Around halfway through this book, one of its two main characters asks the other, "Don't you think it's strange that in America, the country where the greatest economic revolution in history has taken place, the average citizen has no idea why we're richer?" Amazing question, and this book was written to give the average citizen an easy way to understand the main driver of our country's wealth. It succeeds masterfully.
The reason a book like this is necessary is that most people don't understand how a society or country becomes wealthier. As this book clearly demonstrates, most peoples' ideas on how to make citizens better off would be counter-productive, actually having the opposite effect.
Without dismissing the ideas and feelings of people who don't typically support free-market solutions to humanitarian challenges, Roberts makes a compelling and easy-to-understand case for the superiority of the free-market in achieving those goals. It's powerful, often counter-intuitive stuff. I believe that if our country is going to have a future as bright as its past, more people will need to be exposed to this type of thinking so they can vote for candidates who will make solid decisions regarding our economy and our future.
The thinking and explanations in this book are wonderful. It gets four stars rather than five because the fictional narrative is painfully stilted and hokey, but please don't let that stop you from reading this book. It will painlessly teach you things that can be very hard to learn. Besides, the hokey narratives are really part of Robert's charm.
Any voter who wants to become better at helping their country to become better off in the future should read this book to help them get a useful framework for evaluating the proposals of candidates. Highly recommended.
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