My relative got this book and I was skimming through it. It looks sort of full of shit. Not that I require boring dry and thick analysis, but he basically just describes going to 8-9 different countries and cracks a few jokes about what he saw, and pretends that he has insight into why they're successful or not, but comes to these totally simpleminded conclusions. He goes to Tanzania and sees how they are all very poor despite the fact that they work hard. He says educational would help but lack of a more formalized school system isn't the problem. Then he describes seeing a lot of potholes and how the politicians are mostly inept, and how the IMF screwed them over, and basically comes to the conclusion that Tanzania is an 'adolescent of a country' that is going through an 'awkward' phase, and that they should just be left alone to let private property, education, and trade solve things, and he doesn't look at all into the history of imperialism etc. 'Leaving them alone' would certainly be better than the current state of affairs but he doesn't talk about how that isn't the plan at all with various 'free' trade charters in the works.