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

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

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

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

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.

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.

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

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

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

Communication succeeds when you make others understand you clearly, and they make you understand them clearly.

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Love is here.” Chamuel pointed to her chest. “If you can’t feel it, Lilly, that’s on you.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.