Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Ranked #15 in Macroeconomics, Ranked #18 in International Business — see more rankings.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as old as Empire" but has taken on new and terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization. Perkins should know. For many years he worked for an international consulting firm where his main job was to convince LDCs (less developed countries) around the world to accept multibillion-dollar loans for infrastructure projects and to see to it that most of this money ended up at Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown and Root, and other United States engineering and construction companies. This book, which many people... more
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Marc Andreessen Co-Founder/Andreessen HorowitzRecommends this book
Anurag Ramdasan Amazing insights into the economic warfare cast over the last few decades and its implications on the world in different ways
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- #67 in Bibliography
- #18 in Capitalism
- #19 in Conspiracy
- #31 in Corruption
- #76 in Current Affairs
- #20 in Development Economics
- #42 in Economics
- #48 in International Relations
- #88 in Politics
- #31 in Propaganda
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