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There were parts of this which I would recommend to many people - explanations of commerce and government spending that made a hell of a lot of sense and which cut through the rubbish we see all the time in social and news media, stuff which I'd encourage everyone to take on board to avoid lazy assumptions and being a bit gullible. Some of the key discussions of 'zero sum' games/situations had great clarity.

Perhaps though I was looking for more of some aspects of what Landsberg had to say, and less of others. At times it felt repetitive, as if the same point (albeit important) was being laboured and expressed in several different ways. At times I felt the analogies were slightly irresponsible in their simplicity with 'real world' variables ignored in order to make for a more elegant example for the man in the street. At times I wanted something a little more amusing and fun, where the author chose instead to stress a point of drier nature (I recall a more quirky book of a similar ilk - Time Harford 'The Logic of Life') instead. It also felt US-centric and slightly dated.

Nevertheless, for a book of just over 200 pages this made for a well-packed and interesting read.