The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Summary and Study Guide

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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the 2016 sequel to John Perkins’s best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), which reveals how American corporations and the US government use major development contracts to control third-world nations. Though autobiographical in nature, The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an easy read with the feel of an adventure or spy novel. The book includes chapters on how Americans can act against the corporate “death economy” and also contains 50 pages of documentation, notes, and an index.

Perkins admits he served as an “economic hit man” to convince leaders of poor countries to accept loans that pay for infrastructure projects, loans that cannot easily be repaid and effectively put those officials in the US government’s pocket. Leaders who resist economic capture are routinely overthrown or assassinated.