I was really surprised how O'Rourke came away from Sweden without ripping their social democratic welfare state to shreds. He seems to have learned a bit about how a humane version of capitalism could work. For that reason alone the book should be required reading for all rah-rah American free marketeers. Much of the rest of the book is immediately forgettable. I was very disappointed with the chapter on Wall Street, a very lazy reporting job, and not at all witty.