--- product_id: 440356940 title: "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition" price: "S$47" currency: SGD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sg/products/440356940-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man-3rd-edition store_origin: SG region: Singapore --- # Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition **Price:** S$47 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition - **How much does it cost?** S$47 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sg](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/440356940-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man-3rd-edition) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Los Angeles Times Bestseller How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China’s takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China’s economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy. In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation. EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China’s EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy—whether executed by the United States or China—will destroy life as we know it. However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires readers to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States’s and China’s EHM strategies for good. Review: Information On A Global Scale - Interesting, Enlightening, Amazing! I have Not finished my reading; this is how I feel so far. Review: How the World Really Works: Know the Meaning Behind the Headlines - I was fortunate to meet John Perkins in 2011 when he spoke at a Maui event hosted by my employer. As the event emcee, I worked with him backstage to prepare his introduction. I mention this before getting to the book, because it goes to his authenticity. Although he's a top-tier speaker, he's not about sensationalism - he's about connection, clarity, and truth and I was delighted to find that he's the same quality of person onstage and off. What was most helpful to me in the pages of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 3rd Edition was the way Mr. Perkins blended his early history as an "EHM" with current events playing out on the global stage. The new chapters promoted on the cover really do add new value and relevance to this work, from the "where are they now?" updates covering his formative work in places like the Middle East and Latin America to his illuminating insights on today's EHM activity related to China and the New Silk Road. Mr. Perkins takes complex world events (many of which he personally participated in) and provides fresh perspectives that make them accessible. This is important, because he goes on to explain how "ordinary" people like myself (without a background in international politics, business, or economics) can understand these events and find grassroots ways to make a difference. In many ways it reads like some of my favorite classic spy stories, but it's all true, all rigorously documented, and ultimately, a hopeful call to positive action. I hope many will read and share this important writing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #17,349 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in Government & Business #16 in Economic Policy #16 in Economic Policy & Development (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 851 Reviews | ## Images ![Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81OEF1RiBsL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Information On A Global Scale *by S***S on August 2, 2026* Interesting, Enlightening, Amazing! I have Not finished my reading; this is how I feel so far. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ How the World Really Works: Know the Meaning Behind the Headlines *by A***E on November 9, 2023* I was fortunate to meet John Perkins in 2011 when he spoke at a Maui event hosted by my employer. As the event emcee, I worked with him backstage to prepare his introduction. I mention this before getting to the book, because it goes to his authenticity. Although he's a top-tier speaker, he's not about sensationalism - he's about connection, clarity, and truth and I was delighted to find that he's the same quality of person onstage and off. What was most helpful to me in the pages of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 3rd Edition was the way Mr. Perkins blended his early history as an "EHM" with current events playing out on the global stage. The new chapters promoted on the cover really do add new value and relevance to this work, from the "where are they now?" updates covering his formative work in places like the Middle East and Latin America to his illuminating insights on today's EHM activity related to China and the New Silk Road. Mr. Perkins takes complex world events (many of which he personally participated in) and provides fresh perspectives that make them accessible. This is important, because he goes on to explain how "ordinary" people like myself (without a background in international politics, business, or economics) can understand these events and find grassroots ways to make a difference. In many ways it reads like some of my favorite classic spy stories, but it's all true, all rigorously documented, and ultimately, a hopeful call to positive action. I hope many will read and share this important writing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book Review: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man *by P***L on September 10, 2025* Originally published in 2004, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is John Perkins’s astonishing autobiographical “true story” of his time working as an economist with US contractors in developing countries. Moving mostly chronologically from the 1960s through 2023 in the third edition, Perkins reveals the pattern of control exerted by the US and China over the developing nations. This pattern, identified through three distinct waves, repeatedly involves “the four pillars of the EHM strategy: Fear, Debt, Anxiety, Divide and Conquer.” In his introduction, Economic Hit Men are described as “highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.” These EHMs work to channel funds from the World Bank, USAID, and other foreign aid organizations into developing nations through large loans for power grids, dams, infrastructure, manufacturing, etc. Economic forecasts and other statistics for “aid projects” in these nations are manipulated, and often wildly exaggerated, in order to induce countries to accept loans from either the Washington Consensus and to employ US firms to supply the manpower and materials for the needed projects; or in the Chinese EHM strategy, with the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) and using Chinese companies and materials. This strategy funnels the “aid” funds back to the US or China and the contracting companies make record profits on the projects. As the economic projections almost inevitably fail to materialize, these nations are left with vast amounts of debt, leaving the creditor to negotiate control over the country’s natural resources and often their political goals and alliances as well as their social policies. The book reads much like a spy novel, with Perkins relating the exciting details of the cloak and dagger meetings that resulted in him working for Chas T. Main, Inc. (MAIN) in countries like Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Indonesia, and Egypt. He describes his relationship with various national leaders, such as the Ecuadorian presidents Rafael Correa and Jaime Roldos, the Chilean president Salvador Allende, and Panama’s Omar Torrijos. All of these, Perkins asserts, were killed for standing against Big Oil and other industry giants. Throughout this shocking book, the EHM strategy is described in such a way that specifics may be questioned but not the existence of the overall strategy itself, which becomes clearly evident. Perkins assures the readers that the EHM strategy amounts to slavery and results in a “Death Economy.” A key characteristic of this type of economy is the belief, advanced by Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman in the late 1970s, that a corporation exists to maximize short-term profits and no heed should be paid to long-term or collateral damage. Other characteristics of a death economy include: the vilification of taxation; the undemocratic control of citizens by corporations; the exploitation of entire countries and their populations; places higher value on nonproductive jobs; keeps billions of people in poverty. (p.323) Contrary to this is what Perkins terms a “Life Economy,” which aims at the goal of serving the public interest democratically through non-monopolistic competition, sustainable products, valuing life and spiritually enhancing activities above materialistic ones; placing an emphasis upon education, health care, and the arts; cleaning pollution and regenerating devastated environments; one that is driven by compassion and debt avoidance. Overall, the book serves as a much-needed wakeup call for citizens not only in the West but throughout the entire world. As a former insider with a well-developed and well-deserved guilt complex, Perkins here exposes the EHM strategy but stops short of supporting the view that it is a conspiracy led by a few with nefarious intent. Nevertheless, he makes the uncomfortable assertion that the EHM strategies only work because we-the-people make them work; we authorize them through the decisions we make every day. In order to combat the four pillars of the EHM strategy, Perkins suggests using social media to share knowledge of the EHM strategy with other people; writing to CEOs; remaining debt-free; recognizing attempts to create anxiety through “othering” and materialism; denouncing propaganda; and by glorifying “cooperation, compassion and peace instead of conquest.” ## Frequently Bought Together - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition - The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sg/products/440356940-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man-3rd-edition](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/440356940-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man-3rd-edition) --- *Product available on Desertcart Singapore* *Store origin: SG* *Last updated: 2026-09-29*