A Game as Old as Empire (ISBN 978-1-57675-395-8) is a collection of accounts from investigators, journalists and activists calling themselves "economic hitmen", about global affairs. Each chapter contains a story about a different aspect of what one of the authors calls 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

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a book written by John Perkins and published in 2004. It provides Perkins' account of his career with consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. Before employment with the firm, he interviewed for a job with the National Security Agency...

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Sections

• 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
  John Christensen
  John Hansen Christensen is a former field hockey player who was a member of the New Zealand national team that won the gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.-References:...
  
  
• BCCI's Double Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad by Lucy Komisar
  Lucy Komisar
  Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist. She writes about offshore banking, corporate secrecy, international money laundering, and how they relate to corporate fraud; international corruption; the looting by dictators; financing of terrorism; international crime including...
  
  
• The Human Cost of Cheap Cell Phones by Kathleen Kern
• Mercenaries on the Front Lines in the New Scramble for Africa by Andrew Rowell
  Andrew Rowell
  Andrew Rowell is an Emmy award winning filmmaker. Based in Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom he won the award for his camerawork for NBC on the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics....
  
   and James Marriott
  James Marriott
  Sir James Marriott was a prominent British judge, politician and scholar of the late eighteenth century who is best known for his service at the High Court of Admiralty, the highest court in Britain dealing with naval and maritime affairs...
  
  
• 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
  Bruce Rich
  Bruce Rich is an American writer and lawyer who has published extensively on the environment in developing countries and development in general. He is the author of a critique and history of the World Bank, and was awarded the United Nations Global 500 Award for environmental achievement for his...
  
  
• The Mirage of Debt Relief by James S. Henry
• Global Uprising: The Web of Resistance by Antonia Juhasz
  Antonia Juhasz
  Antonia Juhasz is the Director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights non-profit organization. She is a policy-analyst, author and activist....