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Confessions of an economic hit man

Author:	John Perkins
Publisher:	San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2004.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	A former consultant to the U.S. government reveals the inner workings of the high-stakes economic game that encourages Third World economies to borrow money so that major corporations like Halliburton end up getting the contracts.
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Subjects	Perkins, John, -- 1945- United States. -- National Security Agency -- Biography. Economists -- United States -- Biography. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Aufsatzsammlung Erlebnisbericht Biography
Named Person:	John Perkins; John M Perkins
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	John Perkins Find more information about:
ISBN:	1576753018 9781576753019
OCLC Number:	55138900
Description:	xxi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	1963-1971 -- An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia: lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- 1971-1975 -- My role as inquisitor -- Civilization on trial -- Jesus, seen differently -- Opportunity of a lifetime -- Panama's president and hero -- Pirates in the Canal Zone -- Soldiers and prostitutes -- Conversations with the general -- Entering a new and sinister period in economic history -- The Saudi Arabian money-laundering affair -- Pimping, and financing Osama bin Laden -- 1975-1981 -- Panama Canal negotiations and Graham Greene -- Iran's king of kings -- Confessions of a tortured man -- The fall of a king -- Colombia: keystone of Latin America -- American republic versus global empire -- The deceptive résumé -- Ecuador's president battles big oil -- I quit -- 1981-present -- Ecuador's presidential death -- Panama: another presidential death -- My energy company, Enron, and George W. Bush -- I take a bribe -- The United States invades Panama -- An EHM failure in Iraq -- September 11 and its aftermath for me, personally -- Venezuela: saved by Saddam -- Ecuador revisited -- Piercing the veneer.
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A former consultant to the U.S. government reveals the inner workings of the high-stakes economic game that encourages Third World economies to borrow money so that major corporations like Halliburton end up getting the contracts.

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