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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
Plume
January 2006
On Sale: January 1, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0452287081
EAN: 9780452287082
Kindle: B001AFF266
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Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction
"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes," are
highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the
globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include
fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs,
extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as
Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions
during this time of globalization." John Perkins should know—he was an economic hit man
for an international consulting firm that worked to
convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and
to funnel that money to U.S.corporations. Once these
countries were saddled with huge debts, the American
government and international aid agencies were able to
request their "pound of flesh" in favors, including access
to natural resources, military cooperation, and political
support. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the story of
one man’s experiences inside the intrigue, greed,
corruption and little-known government and corporate
activities that America has been involved in since World
War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of
democracy and the world.
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