books.google.co.uk - "David Spiro has followed the money trail, and the story he tells, based on interviews and a painstaking accumulation of fragmentary evidence, contradicts the accepted beliefs both in the particulars and in broad outline. Most of the sudden flush of new oil wealth did not go to poor oil-importing countries...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_hidden_hand_of_American_hegemony.html?id=I3vWgRS_itIC&q=distribution&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe hidden hand of American hegemony