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John Perkins

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

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Essay Topics

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Economic hit men and jackals are important players in the corporatocracy. Who are they, and how do they contribute to the system?

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The book thoroughly details how the EHM system impacts developing countries. Perkins asserts that this system is now being used to manipulate America. How so, and how might people resist the corporatocracy in the United States and abroad?

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Perkins promised third-world leaders that they would be able to repay modernization project loans because of a specific feature of those projects. What is that feature, and what actually happens to that feature during the term of the loan?