TY - BOOK AU - Hiatt,Steven TI - A game as old as empire: the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption SN - 9781576753958 (hardcover) AV - HD2755.5 .G184 2007 U1 - 364.1/323 22 PY - 2007/// CY - San Francisco, Berkeley, CA PB - Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., Publishers Group West [distributor] KW - International business enterprises KW - Corrupt practices KW - Political corruption KW - Structural adjustment (Economic policy) KW - Dependency KW - Globalization KW - Social aspects N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034244.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2006034244-d.html ER -