Where others might trot out hypotheses and hard evidence, Thurow reaches for metaphors and glib generalities. You don't read a diet book to learn science or history. You read it to learn how to get thin. Thurow is selling for building ''new wealth pyramids'' turn out to be a collection of truisms that are neither new nor stated in an interesting way. Yes, people do get rich by exploiting new opportunities.
Luck is necessary.
Better be at the right place at the right time, Thurow advises. Pretty thin stuff.