Well, this was hard to rate. The "storyline" part of this "economic fable" was weaker, I thought, than The Invisible Heart, but the economic explanations were generally pretty well done. Maybe 3 for the story, 4 for the economics. This would have been hard to fit better in a storyline, I guess. Even armed with this book and all the statistics the world has produced, it seems to me that most of this country is still not ready, willing, or able to hear the arguments for free trade. Kind of sad. This was generally well done but still isn't going to budge your standard "But them furriners is taking all our jobs!" American.