The Mission of Betrayal: Shepherd Wolves, Red Herrings and Poisoned Meatballs, 8

Step Three, "market−based pricing". Forced by the IMF and by the quicksand the IMF’s "help" is pushing it into, the gasping nation abandons support to people’s purchasing power, cancelling subsidies and letting the prices of essential goods shoot up, pushing people more and more into poverty.
Step Three−and−a−Half: "social unrest". The pressure is turned up to «squeeze the last drop of blood out of them», and the IMF is well aware and well prepared for the deflagration, and continues turning up the pressure because its intention is precisely to cause it and exploit that, too. So when people begin to react in dissent and self defence, «peaceful demonstrations are dispersed by bullets, tanks and tear gas», because this causes «new flights of capital and government bankruptcies»; an «economic arson» motivated by its «bright side» for the vultures: the nation’s «remaining assets at fire sales prices».
Step Four, "free trade". «This is free trade by the rules of the World Trade Organisation and the World Bank, which Stiglitz likens to the Opium Wars. ‘That too was about "opening markets",’ he said. As in the nineteenth century, Europeans and Americans today are kicking down barriers to sales in Asia, Latin American and Africa while barricading our own markets against the Third World's agriculture. In the Opium Wars, the West used military blockades. Today, the World Bank can order a financial blockade, which is just as effective and sometimes just as deadly.»
«'It's a little like the Middle Ages,' says the economist. 'When the patient died they would say well, we stopped the bloodletting too soon, he still had a little blood in him.'» And there’s no better doctor than the parasite itself.

In light of both economic parasitism and Orwellian doublethink and doublespeak, mainstream economic theories may take on a much clearer – if a bit more specious and sinister – meaning.