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Confessions of an economic hit man /
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to Amer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
©2004.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | BK currents book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.