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Definitely worth the read. Gets a bit too chatty at times, could use a slightly tighter structure, but the contents is great, and there is a lot of food for thought. The language is accessible and I probably didn't understand every point he made but just the many examples he gives themselves draw a picture of what "money" and economics is, what its roots are, how it shapes not only our economy but also our culture and social relations, and the most important parts: There's nothing God-given about this and things can be different.

A short and easy read, easy recognizable insight, and inspires action.

This book is written in an easy going language. It makes a convincing case for changing one's a approach to learning, then proceeds to break that change of approach up into manageable bites, and inspires the reader to get right down to it.

Can warmly recommend.

This early work of Ursula Le Guin sees her in her period of writing more classical, "hard" science fiction; yet her personal fingerprint is fortunately still all over this story.
This is not a ground breaking piece of literature, it's a nice little well-rounded, bite-size, easily digestible and entertaining story, yet it still manages to discretely subvert many of the genre tropes and stereotypes and raise some interesting questions. And as always, no matter how great and imaginative world building and science fiction technology Le Guin creates, it is always the people who take front and center.

Stylistically, Le Guin hadn't quite found her stride yet when writing this book, it is not as well written as her later works. But it is still immensely enjoyable, and a snapshot of a one-woman literary revolution in its beginnings. And also just plain old entertaining and captivating.