The new confessions of an economic hit man
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages. New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins&...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, CA :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
[2016]
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| Edición: | Second edition |
| Colección: | BK currents book.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629673306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The new confessions
- Part I. 1963-1971
- Dirty business
- An economic hit man is born
- "In for life"
- Indonesia : lessons for an EHM
- Saving a country from communism
- Selling my soul
- Part II. 1971-1975
- My role as inquisitor
- Civilization on trial
- 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
- Part III. 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
- Part IV. 1981-2004
- 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
- Part V. 2004-today
- Conspiracy : was I poisoned?
- A jackal speaks : the Seychelles conspiracy
- Ecuador rebels
- Honduras : the CIA strikes
- Your friendly banker as EHM
- Vietnam : lessons in a prison
- Istanbul : tools of modern empire
- A coup against Fundacion Pachamama
- Another EHM banking scandal
- Who are today's economic hit men?
- Who are today's jackals?
- Lessons for China
- What you can do
- Things to do
- Documentation of EHM activity from 2004 to 2015
- John Perkins personal history.
