Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.