A Game as Old as Empire

"A Game as Old as Empire" (2007) (ISBN 978-1-57675-395-8) is a collection of accounts from investigators, journalists and self-proclaimed economic hitmen about the secret world of global corruption. Each chapter contains a story about a different aspect of 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, the first person to bring to light this kind of information about corporate corruption.

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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