I didn't like From Poverty to Prosperity. The description sounded awesome, like these economists unlocked the secret to get economies rolling that wasn't limited to the old ideas of lower taxes and more favorable business climates. But they didn't. Pretty much everything they talked as if it was brand new discoveries, in 2009, where stuff we had talked about in my undergraduate political science courses (circa 2005). It really took a while for it to go anywhere, in a year where I have been getting a book read a week, this less than 300 pages took my 8 weeks to slog through.

Their ideas about "weak property rights" that included more coverage, for shorter periods of time, for intellectual property were weird. I felt most of the points they made would actually be better reference points to why there should be 0 protections to intellectual property.

I agree with other reviewers on LibraryThing that the interviews they included where much better than the "new content" which was mostly just a strange stretch for unnecessarily forcing economic thought into software development language, particularly as it sounds like neither author has ever been a developer. That being said even the interviews were kind of weird, questions worded in such a way that they would get the answers they wanted and when they didn't, they tried to ask it differently to get it the way they wanted. Why you would do that and still publish the first part is even weirder to me.

Lastly the book just kind of ends with the interview with William Baumol. There is no summary chapter, no conclusions, like a kid whose term-paper is due at midnight.