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Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. Here, Perkins pulls back the curtain on the real cause of the current global financial meltdown. He shows how we've been hoodwinked by the CEOs who run the corporatocracy - those corporations that control the vast amounts of capital and resources around the globe.

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John Perkins has been in and out of the world of high finance and low ethics, and in Hoodwinked he not only illuminates that world with dramatic stories and keen insights, but suggests what we might do to create a better society. <br>--Howard Zinn, bestselling author of A People's History of the United States <br> <br> Another thriller from the master storyteller with an insider view. Perkins takes us once again into the dark netherworld of corrupt bankers and economic hit men who lure the unsuspecting into financial ruin and reveals the connection between the folks who for decades enriched themselves at the expense of the world's poor and those who now reap billions at the expense of America. Same people, same scams. <br>--David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy and The Great Turning, and board chair of YES! magazine <br> John Perkins' engaging narrative draws us into a brilliant analysis of capitalism's shadow side, and points us to a hopeful p

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"JOHN PERKINS is the bestselling author of the classic expose ""Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"" and an economist who has enjoyed a front-row seat to world events for the past four decades--as the chief economist of a major consulting firm and economic hit man for the American corporatocracy in the 1970s, CEO of an energy company in the 1980s, and founder of nonprofits in the 1990s and 2000s. He spent the past five years traveling across the United States and to many other countries where he met with government and corporate leaders, spoke at universities and business conferences, talked with people from all walks of life, and gained invaluable insights into the underlying causes of the current crisis."

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