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A game as old as empire : the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption /
Exposes the secrets of a worldwide web of control, corruption, and plunder. This book tells how bigger powers operate to enrich small elite and corporate coffers while often impoverishing masses of people and creating debt and dependency that economically enslave countries for generations.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco : Berkeley, CA :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers ; Publishers Group West [distributor],
©2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | BK currents book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: new confessions and revelations from the world of economic hit men / John Perkins
- Global empire: the web of control / Steven Hiatt
- Selling money-- and dependency: setting the debt trap / S.C. Gwynne
- Dirty money: inside the secret world of offshore banking / John Christensen
- BCCI's double game: banking on America, banking on jihad / Lucy Komisar
- The human cost of cheap cell phones / Kathleen Kern
- Mercenaries on the front lines in the new scramble for Africa / Andrew Rowell and James Marriott
- Hijacking Iraq's oil reserves: economic hit men at work / Greg Muttitt
- The World Bank and the $100 billion question / Steve Berkman
- The Philippines, the World Bank, and the race to the bottom / Ellen Augustine
- Exporting destruction / Bruce Rich
- The mirage of debt relief / James S. Henry
- Global uprising: the web of resistance / Antonia Juhasz.