Not at all! It's basically an "everything you know about money is wrong" argument from an anthropologist who not only spent 3 years in Madagascar, but whose professional economic experience seems largely dedicated to opposing the IMF. I'm going to finish it before I recommend it but right now, I see myself recommending it.
I'n'I can hook you up. Barring that, so can most libraries. I decisively stopped listening to NPR in 2003 when they had a Marketplace article talking about how the economy can't be bad because orders of Learjets and Gulfstreams were up. I haven't missed it.
Interesting. I thought you were using all that, and that Jefferson seemed like an obvious choice, given that you could have used any number of presidents. A George W. Bush commemorative gold coin (which I know you carry around in your pocket for inspiration) wouldn't have had nearly the weight.