A Game as Old as Empire

This book is quite revealing. It describes how economics has been used by great powers to maintain their balance in the balance of power scheme of things.

Basicly, it is the story of economic hit-men. These are people who are responsible for the decline and fall of otherwise good economies. By manipulating various economic variables, they are able to bring economies to their knees.

Essentially, this is the same thing as the concept of identity theft. Someone fakes your economic variables by pretending to be you, and then, your personal finances are in disarray.

With economic hit men, it is not on a personal level, but on a national one.

Read more about this book. An excerpt from the review is below:

In gripping detail, they describe the schemes and subterfuges that multinational corporations, governments, powerful individuals, financial institutions, and quasi-governmental agencies use to line their pockets behind the façade of “foreign aid” and “international development.”