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's classic bestseller
brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and,
chillingly, home to the US. Over 40 percent of the book is new,
including chapters identifying today's EHMs and a detailed
chronology extensively documenting EHM activity since the first
edition was published in 2004. Former economic hit man John Perkins
shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries
around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how
the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely
and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else - to become the
dominant system of business, government, and society today.
Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change
it. Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the
corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding
governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the
EHMs can't maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent
coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is
a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the
fact that all the EHM and jackal tools - false economics, false
promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups,
assassinations, unbridled military power - are used around the
world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed
over a decade ago. The material in this new section ranges from the
Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, and Libya to Turkey, Western Europe,
Vietnam, China, and, in perhaps the most unexpected and sinister
development, the United States, where the new EHMs - bankers,
lobbyists, corporate executives, and others - "con governments and
the public into submitting to policies that make the rich richer
and the poor poorer." But as dark as the story gets, this reformed
EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers a detailed list of specific
actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing
Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable
abundance for all.
General
Imprint: |
Readhowyouwant
|
Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
February 2016 |
Authors: |
John Perkins
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
668 |
Edition: |
Large type / large print edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4587-6914-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4587-6914-3 |
Barcode: |
9781458769145 |
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