A breathtaking expose of who really holds the power in America, and how their henchmen have infiltrated every system of government, economics and society today
John Perkins was formerly Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm where he advised the World Bank, United Nations, the IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Since then, his books on economics, geo-politics, and indigenous cultures have sold more than 1 million copies. He is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofits devoted to establishing a world our children will want to inherit. www.johnperkins.org
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a unique book, brave because
it is personal. With unflinching honesty, John Perkins narrates his
moral awakening and struggle to break free from the corrupt system
of global domination he himself helped to create. This book
possesses an immediacy which separates it from the numerous studies
we already have of American Empire. It comes from the heart. I
highly recommend it.
*Michael Brownstein, author of World on Fire*
When I read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, I could not have
known that, some years later, I would be on the receiving end of
the type of ‘economic hit’ that Perkins so vividly narrated ...
Perkins has, once again, made a substantial contribution to a world
that needs whistle-blowers to open its eyes to the true sources of
political, social, and economic power
*Yanis Varoufakis, former Minister of Finance, Greece*
Must reading for those that know another world is possible!
Perkins' story, however, is less about individual guilt and more
about the systemic programming and tempting of males in patriarchal
societies and their global power elites. Perkins' revelations shock
us and illuminate how these same incentives in academia keep
reproducing the compartmentalized worldviews and sophisticated
economic models rationalizing inequity, greed, egotism, competitive
self-interest and global expansionism via GDP-growth and debt.
*Hazel Henderson, author of Beyond Globalization and Building a
Win-Win World*
I was hazy on the precise details of how third world debt came
about, but after reading Confessions of an Economic Hit Man I
consider myself rather better informed. And a lot more dismayed…
it’s all here in toe-curling detail
*Guardian*
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