America had come to the rescue of Korea's "troubled banks". The auction of commercial bank assets was an obvious fraud. - Michel Evgenij Chossudovsky

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

Macro-economic reform undermined the legal economy, reinforced illicit trade and contributed to the recycling of "dirty money" towards Peru's official and commercial creditors.

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