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

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.

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

The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.