| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 310 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
A BK currents book
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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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International business enterprises -- Corrupt practices.
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International business enterprises -- Corrupt practices. |
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International business enterprises. |
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Political corruption.
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Political corruption. |
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy) |
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Dependency.
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Dependency. |
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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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 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Game as old as empire. 1st ed. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers ; Berkeley, CA : Publishers Group West [distributor], ©2007 (DLC) 2006034244 |
| ISBN |
9781576757987 (electronic book) |
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1576757986 (electronic book) |
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9781605096919 (electronic book) |
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1605096911 (electronic book) |
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128229962X |
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9781282299627 |
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9781576753958 (hardcover) |
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1576753956 (hardcover) |
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