Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

This phenomenal New York Times bestseller is an expose of international corruption and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations. John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States, from Indonesia to Panama, to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to US corporations, such as Halliburton and Bechtel. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the US government, World Bank, and other US-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks, dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the story of one man's extraordinary experiences inside the international intrigue, greed, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War I--and which have dire implications for American democracy and world freedom.

"An entirely riveting and vital expose of the immoral, underhand dealings of the American corporatocracy - *****" * Independent on Sunday *
"It's all here, in toe-curling detail" * Guardian Weekend *
"One of the most remarkable books I have read in a long timeIt is also one of the most frightening ... Perkins' aim is to expose the empire in order to dismantle it. He got out, he emphasises - and the wider world can get out too. We can disband the empire, but only if we know how it really functions. There are few better paces to find out" * New Statesman *
"Once you've absorbed the book's central message, it makes the news look rather different" -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
"Perkins has ripped open the belly of the financial buccaneers from his unique place on the inside. Here are the real-life details - nasty, manipulative, plain evil - of international corporate skullduggery spun into a tale rivaling the darkest espionage thriller" -- Greg Palast, author of THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY

John Perkins was covertly recruited to be an economic hit man (EHM) by the US National Security Agency during his last year at Boston University's School of Business Administration, in the late 1960s. Following his EHM work, Perkins founded Independent Power Systems, an alternative energy provider that successfully changed the US utility industry. He is now president of Dream Change Coalition, a nonprofit organization working with Amazonian and other indigenous people to help preserve their environments and cultures. 'As I travel around the world, I find that people know that their country just received a billion-dollar loan, for example, from the World Bank and that American corporations are there benefiting from the loan, but that their own lives are getting worse,' he says.

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ISBN 13	9780091909109
ISBN 10	0091909104
Title	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author	John Perkins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ebury Publishing
Year published	2006-02-02
Number of pages	272
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