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Amazon.com Review John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story. Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were gi
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- Author
- John Perkins, Perkins, John, John Perkins, Perkins, John, 0
- Publisher
- Berrett Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780452287082
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Language Learning, Economics
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (627 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Les confessions d'un assassin financier : révélations sur la manipulation des économies du monde par les États-Unis (2005)
- Bir Ekonomik Tetikçinin İtirafları (2011)
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2006)
- Bir Ekonomik Tetikçinin İtirafları (2007)
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (BK Currents) (2006)
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (BK Currents) (2005)
- Bir Ekonomik Tetikçinin İtirafları (2021)
- Les confessions d'un assassin financier : révélations sur la manipulation des économies du monde par les États-Unis (2012)
- Les confessions d'un assassin financier : Révélations sur la manipulation des économies du monde par les Etats-Unis (2005)
- 一个经济杀手的自白 : 揭露美国全球经济援助背后的真实企图 = Confessions of an economic hit man Yi ge jing ji sha shou de zi bai : jie lu mei guo quan qiu jing ji yuan zhu bei hou de zhen s (2006)
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2005)
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