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The new confessions of an economic hit man

 Format: Print  Author/s: Perkins, John  Call Number: UB271.U52 P47 2016  Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.  Place of Publication: Oakland, CA  Date of Publication: 2016  ISBN: 9781626566743  Pages: 366  Language: English  Dimension: 22 cm  Tags: American -- Corrupt practicesCorporationsEconomists -- United States -- BiographyEnergy consultants -- United States -- BiographyImperialism -- History -- 20th centuryImperialism -- History -- 21st centuryIntelligence officers -- United States -- BiographyJohn PerkinsUnited States. National Security Agency -- Biography Chas. T. Main Inc.World Bank -- Developing countries |
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New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins’s classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and, chillingly, home to the US. Over 40 percent of the book is new, including chapters identifying today’s EHMs and a detailed chronology extensively documenting EHM activity since the first edition was published in 2004.

 

Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it.

 

Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, anthe rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can‘t maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago.

 

The material in this new section ranges from the Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, and Libya to Turkey, Western Europe, Vietnam, China, and, in perhaps the most unexpected and sinister development, the United States, where the new EHMs—bankers, lobbyists, corporate executives, and others—“con governments anthe public into submitting to policies that make the rich richer anthe poor poorer.”

 

But as dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers a detailed list of specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.

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