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Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Does believing in God make your country richer? How can a diamond mine be a bad business? Alan Beattie wants to alter the way you think about the world. Filled with extraordinary stories of financial triumph and disaster, False Economy provides a counterintuitive look at how the world really works, and asks why it all too frequently doesn't. Provocative, witty and erudite, Beattie poses questions that challenge our most basic assumptions and uses fascinating examples from history to show why economies can go so right, or so wrong.