Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (CD-Audio)

from bezoar44

This book deals with important issues, but it just isn't very good. One way to understand this book is as a professional memoir by an unreliable narrator. I don't mean that Perkins reports events and experiences as true that are wholly false; I can't judge that. But, if you keep independent recor...

from JeremyPreacher

This was a fascinating read. I had a general idea that these kind of shenanigans were going on, but the in-depth look at the mechanism was well worth it. That being said, I have the strong suspicion that the author played up his moral discomfort to a very large degree to make himself a more sympa...

from raschneid

This was disturbing and a fairly good read, although Perkins' vantage point, while a scary insight into the history of globalization, is limited. He's a tool, a middle man, and doesn't have access to the conversations of those at the top or the bottom of the global pyramid. I'd have to read a lot...

from KLmesoftly

Ultimately, this read more like a travel memoir than a startling expose. Perkins' near-constant claims of reluctance and remembered crises of conscience make him hard to take seriously as part of the system he claims to have so much knowledge of, and while i love an unreliable narrator (in fictio...

from ashutosh.kumar

Reveals US attemps to expand its global empire by taking over resource-rich countries.PLAN:IMF/World-Book give "Aid"(Loans) to such countries so huge so that the receivers are unable to ever payback; now US starts arm-twisting the countries into mineral-rights/pro-US alignments on geo-political i...