A game as old as empire : the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption / Secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption edited by Steven Hiatt ; introduction by John Perkins. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Berkeley, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. ; Publishers Group West [distributor], c2007. - ix, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - A BK currents book .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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International business enterprises--Corrupt practices.
Political corruption.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Dependency.
Globalization--Social aspects.

HD2755.5 / .G184 2007

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