A Game as Old as Empire
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A Game as Old as Empire (2007) (ISBN 978-1-57675-395-8) is a collection of accounts from investigators, journalists and activists calling themselves "economic hitmen", about global affairs. Each chapter contains a story about a different aspect of what one of the authors[who?] calls the "web of global corruption." The book is edited by Steven Hiatt, with an introduction by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
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- Global Empire: The Web of Control by Steven Hiatt
- Selling Money-and Dependency: Setting the Debt Trap by S.C. Gwynne
- Dirty Money: Inside the Secret World of Offshore Banking by John Christensen
- BCCI's Double Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad by Lucy Komisar
- The Human Cost of Cheap Cell Phones by Kathleen Kern
- Mercenaries on the Front Lines in the New Scramble for Africa by Andrew Rowell and James Marriott
- Hijacking Iraq's Oil Reserves: Economic Hit Men at Work by Greg Muttitt
- The World Bank and the $100 Billion Question by Steve Berkman
- The Philippines, the World Bank and the Race to the Bottom by Ellen Augustine
- Exporting Destruction by Bruce Rich
- The Mirage of Debt Relief by James S. Henry
- Global Uprising: The Web of Resistance by Antonia Juhasz
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