As I see it, this book is made up of three distinct sections/essays:  The first 10% (5 stars):   Potentially the best explanation of the characteristics of money and how they work together to solve the "coincidence of wants" issue.  The next 50% (0 stars):   Think of the obnoxious frat bro who just read Ayn Rand for the first time and now has the world completely figured out, or the stoner who believes that the illegality of pot is the cause of all the planet's suffering: it's the sort of exaggerated, tenuously-connected rambling that occurs when someone stumbles across a decent idea and th...