In reading the title and chapters of this book, the first impression will be that in one way or another, the book is reflecting on ritual matters, or divinity. But it is true somewhat, because the world today seems to be under similar circumstances, where we have two different categories of people :”Richest and poorest”. This shouldn’t matter so much, but the real matter is how the rich ones treat or cooperate with the poor ones.

Powerful countries like the US have became (or pretend to be) the “World leader,” and their economy andinternational politics have a strong influence on US people and, remarkably, on the rest of the countries.

So the economic growth of the US itself,  in time, compared to the heaven and hell, depending on how it is. When it is good, the writer sees that as heaven; when it goes worse, it becomes hell.

All of this compiled into the wonderful biblical style under 11 different chapters like...

According to Alice H.Amsden-the author of this book-,under the first American empire from 1950 to 1980,the world enjoyed an economic golden age, and in the period between the end of the WW II-Vietnam war, economies in the third world prospered. Then, after 30 years, it was struck by lightining. It died at the hands of Vietnam war.

But when it assumed power after WW II, responsibility for the third world  fell into its lap, and it was presented with choices. On the other hand, the US could control the third  world politically while doing next to nothing for it economically, as the French and British empires had more or less done. Alice explains.

Then it would be better to escape from empire.