What is slow money? Recall slow food? It's a related premise, that detaching production of goods from the community in which the products are to be sold,, particularly if these commodities are food, leads to a disconnection with . . . everything. The disconnection leads to carelessness that will, eventually, lead to the ultimate disaster, lifeless ash instead of bountiful microbe-rich soil. Along the way communities are destroyed, quality is low or nil and so on. In short, healthy soil is at the root, is the basis, of a healthy economy and we forget that at our peril. Tasch worked for a big foundation and his big aha moment was realizing that although this foundation had admirable aims--there were two major problems. One--they invested their actual principal abominably--ways that did not reflect their philosophy. The justification? Making as much money to give away as possible. Two--they chose to give the money to the sorts of enterprises that 'look good' next to mainstream investing. In short, the whole thing was a sham, more out of lack of courage and real thought and commitment than any hoodwinking. This is a brilliant insight. Fifty, sixty years ago, somebody at Harvard et al woke up and said, "Diamond mines in South Africa? Are you effing kidding me? My scholarship is supported by THAT?" BUT for all that the few ideas sprinkled about here are good ones, there isn't enough content. Although it pains me to say it, this is a tedious even terrible book that would likely do the opposite it intends to all but those who already agree with his thesis. Tasch is a talker--not a lecturer even--and he delivers peppy exciting talks on this subject to investors and whoever will have him I guess. The editors did not FORCE him to rework rethink and rewrite the talks into something a person could bear to read. ** ( )