Not as good as enlightenment now on the state of the world, or something like thinking fast and slow about cognitive biases. The survey that the author presented at the beginning had few surprises for me (or to anybody who has lived outside of the developed world?), and the rest of the book seemed to be hypothesizing about why we believe things with little evidence for those hypotheses.
I did like the simplifying paradigms like there being 4 levels of economic well-being, and the topic is a good one, so 3 stars overall.