num_pages: 250
description: 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 warned Perkins not to write, is a blistering attack on a little-known phenomenon that has had dire consequences on both the victimized countries and the U.S.A.
language: English
title: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
titlecomplete: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
genres: Business, Biography, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Economics, Biography Memoir, Finance, History
ratings_count: 36596
publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (San Francisco)