Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

My short review is this: 'Confessions' is a good introduction to the darker side of foreign policy and the effects of globalization. My slightly longer explanation is this: Paradoxically, what makes the book more accessible is also what turns many people off to it. It takes a chunk of history about a......more

Good message, important, but reads like fiction. If this guy wanted to have any serious impact he should have written something less sensational. Also, he's a jackass. He spent his whole life screwing over everybody, including his friends, and then he writes a book (for which he probably made lots o......more

This is a remarkable work, decades in the making. Perkins is the real deal, an economist who worked for international consortia to pillage the third world. The modus operandi was to perform economic analysis of target nations that indicated a rate of growth far in excess of any real possibility in o......more

Here's why a lot of people won't like this book: it's brutally honest, historically accurate, and it has a message. Here's why a lot of people will like this book: see above. Perkins story about himself is not for everyone; I'll tell you that right now. The biggest reasons are a) his constant dealings......more

I'd had high expectations of this book and was very disappointed--mostly because I wasn't able to get past the fact that Perkins is a chauvinistic pig who I hated from the beginning til the end. He must have thought the fact that he later wrote a "confessional" about being a chauvinistic pig would m......more