| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
A BK currents book
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- World Bank and the $100 billion question / Steve Berkman -- Philippines, the World Bank, and the race to the bottom / Ellen Augustine -- Exporting destruction / Bruce Rich -- Mirage of debt relief / James S. Henry -- Global uprising: the web of resistance / Antonia Juhasz. |
| Subject |
International business enterprises -- Corrupt practices.
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Political corruption.
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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Dependency.
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Hiatt, Steven, 1948-
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| Added Title |
Secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption |
| ISBN |
9781576753958 (hardcover) |
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1576753956 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2526297 |
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