03604nam 2200805 a 450 991097313810332120200520144314.097866122996299781282299627128229962X97815767579871576757986(CKB)1000000000689454(EBL)335388(OCoLC)476147201(SSID)ssj0000160599(PQKBManifestationID)11161246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160599(PQKBWorkID)10182119(PQKB)11222095(CaSebORM)9781576757987(Au-PeEL)EBL335388(CaPaEBR)ebr10221993(CaONFJC)MIL229962(PPN)170232697(MiAaPQ)EBC335388(OCoLC)774026571(OCoLC)ocn774026571 (FR-PaCSA)88807196(FRCYB88807196)88807196(EXLCZ)99100000000068945420061019d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA game as old as empire the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption /edited by Steven Hiatt ; introduction by John Perkins1st ed.San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. ;Berkeley, CA Publishers Group West [distributor]c20071 online resource (321 p.)A BK currents bookDescription based upon print version of record.9781576753958 1576753956 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: New Confessions and Revelations from the World of Economic Hit Men; 1 Global Empire: The Web of Control; 2 Selling Money—and Dependency: Setting the Debt Trap; 3 Dirty Money: Inside the Secret World of Offshore Banking; 4 BCCI's Double Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad; 5 The Human Cost of Cheap Cell Phones; 6 Mercenaries on the Front Lines in the New Scramble for Africa; 7 Hijacking Iraq's Oil Reserves: Economic Hit Men at Work; 8 The World Bank and the 100 Billion Question; 9 The Philippines, the World Bank, and the Race to the Bottom10 Exporting Destruction11 The Mirage of Debt Relief; 12 Global Uprising: The Web of Resistance; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Resources of Hope; Index; 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.BK currents book.Secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruptionInternational business enterprisesCorrupt practicesPolitical corruptionStructural adjustment (Economic policy)DependencyGlobalizationSocial aspectsInternational business enterprisesCorrupt practices.Political corruption.Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Dependency.GlobalizationSocial aspects.364.1/323Hiatt Steven1948-1795893MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973138103321A game as old as empire4337379UNINA