A review by fluffdragon
Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing by Robert L. Fitzpatrick

4.0

3.5 rounded up. I would not recommend this book as an introductory text; if you're looking for an introduction to the hazards of multilevel marketing schemes, start with the segment on Last Week Tonight or the first season of The Dream podcast. I would also not recommend reading this straight through. This book was dry as dust and needed an editor to save FitzPatrick from his tangents. I am actively interested in the subject and I found this book dry. Even though it's very clear that FitzPatrick is an expert on the financial implications of multilevel marketing schemes running rampant, it's as equally clear that he doesn't necessarily understand the communication skills required to alert the public to the scammy nature of multilevel marketing schemes (he takes a couple seemingly uncalled for shots at journalists as a class, which comes off very badly because I heard about his work FROM JOURNALISM). tldr: at least 200 level, not casual reading