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A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

by · 2007

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John Perkins's sensational New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (more than 300,000 sold) revealed just the tip of the iceberg of the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption. Now more economic hit men and investigators tell the whole shocking story.

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economicseconomicsMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thisbusinessbusinessMore like thisLess of this
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2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 310 pages

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