> See Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins Or, for a far less conspiratorial take on the same phenomenon, read "Globalization and its Discontents"

> See Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins Or, for a far less conspiratorial take on the same phenomenon, read "Globalization and its Discontents" by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. In it you'll learn how institutions like the IMF treated open markets and no currency flow restrictions as a religion regardless of whether they made sense for the stage of development of the countries on which they imposed those as terms of their loans.