New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
They're called economic hit men. Their job: saddle developing countries with crippling debt, then exploit them for resources, labor, and political leverage. For decades, the United States wrote the playbook.
Now China is running it-faster and more aggressively than ever.
John Perkins knows because he was one of them. In this riveting third edition, the former EHM pulls back the curtain on a corrupt global system that has cheated countries out of trillions, fueled staggering inequality, and accelerated ecological collapse.
Twelve explosive new chapters reveal
- how China has weaponized the EHM blueprint across Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe;
- the seductive promises and devastating wreckage left behind; and
- why this strategy-whether executed by the US or China-threatens life as we know it.
But Perkins doesn't stop at exposé. He offers a concrete plan for dismantling the system that puts profits above all and building a new "life economy" that restores the planet and creates genuine prosperity.
The system can be changed. This book shows you how.
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John Perkins has written eleven books, including the first edition of this book, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than seventy weeks and was translated into over thirty languages. As a former chief economist, he advised the World Bank, the United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments around the world.