Muse reviewed Ponzinomics by Robert L. Fitzpatrick
Review of 'Ponzinomics' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Very informative, but jumps around a lot between setting up a timeline of events and anecdotes. While I learned a lot, I think it would've been easier to follow if the book wasn't constantly switching between the 80s and the 50s/60s, and also if the full story of the connection between Nutrilite and Amway was finished. The book has a bad habit of assuming that the reader already has a lot of background information, taking a kind of "as you know" tone on the rise of Herbalife, which makes it hard to recommend to people who are not already familiar with how deeply rooted these scams are in American culture. While it works as a great reference point for how MLMs are tied to American politics and have always been pyramid schemes, I think it needed a few more rounds of editing to finish the picture it was painting.