I wasn't the biggest fan of the book and to be honest, I wasn't intrigued enough to finish it. I tried finishing at least 25% of the book and I couldn't manage to finish it. By the time I wanted to finish the book, it was too late for me.

This book is preaching to the choir, in terms of my belief the author is onto something good in his negative assessment of capitalism.

But, for four hundred pages, the prose is a lot like the synopsis above. That is to say, it's not fluid and readable like Yannis Varoufakis and Thomas Piketty (as translated by Arthur Goldhammer, anyway) are. I'm not in good conscience able to recommend the read to laypeople. If you're interested in leftist economics and social policy, come to the altar, but check your expectations at the door.

This may be the most important book I have ever read. Of course I rate it very highly. It is an extensive review of how states have been governed in the past and leaves it to the reader to make his own choices of what kind of a system is worth pursuing. I thank the author for a review copy of this book.

This was an excellent book. This is a thoughtful, well-researched book about what an ideal government should be about. Every government official should read it, as well as every voter.

Thorough, if not a bit wordy. I think it would be good as an additional text in an intro to government class.