... source of many products purchased in the
United States — coffee, bananas, textiles, emeralds, flowers, oil, and
cocaine — and a market for our goods and services.
One of the most important services ... Kuwait; the Iranian Ministry of Energy; the Arabian-
American Oil Company of Saudi Arabia; Institute de Recursos
Hidraulicos y Electrification; Perusahaan Umum Listrik Negara; and...
... and philosopher extraordinaire.
A special word of gratitude to Jeevan Sivasubramanian, Berrett-
Koehler's managing editor, and to Ken Lupoff, Rick Wilson, Maria
xiv Confessions of an Economic ...
with our spreadsheets and financial projections, and we lecture at the
Harvard Business School about the miracles of macroeconomics.
xx Confessions of an Economic Hit Ma...
... could have guessed.
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dozens of languages and dialects, and ethnic groups who nursed
centuries-old animosities. Conflicts were frequent and brutal, and
Sukarno clamped ... elected Iranian prime minister (and TIME magazine's
Man of the Year in 1951), Mohammad Mossadegh, nationalized all
Iranian petroleum assets. An outraged England sought the he...
... war and the mass pro-
duction of weapons, from the damming of rivers and the destruction
of indigenous environments and cultures. I began to look at who
benefits when hundreds of thousands of ... their answers to my questions and
about the validity of their data. For instance, I could never just walk
into an office with my translator and meet with someone; we first
had to se...
... fame,
from manager of planning and financial analysis at Ford Motor
Company in 1949 to Ford's president in I 960 , the first company
78 Part II: 1971-1975
realized for anyone associated ... over-
threw an Iranian democrat and replaced him with a despotic king.
We EHMs were accomplishing many of our objectives in places like
Indonesia and Ecuador, and yet Vietnam was a stunnin...
... the old caravan trail through the desert mountains, from
Kirman to Bandar Abbas, and I roamed the ruins of Persepolis, the
legendary palace of ancient kings and one of the wonders of the clas-
sical ... appearance, and the presence of so
many others in the restaurant, gave me a certain degree of comfort. I
had become accustomed to people befriending me, like Rasy in Java
and...
... John Island and tacked into Sir Francis Drake Chan-
nel, which separates the American from the British Virgin Islands.
The channel was named, of course, after the English scourge of
the Spanish ... Berkeley area of San Francisco's East Bay
and had graduated from UC Berkeley. She was a freethinker whose
views on life contrasted with those of my puritanical parents and of
An...
... live in shanty-towns and have lost all hope
of a better life, people who have ceased to even dream of
another day. These men and women leave their plush offices in
Manhattan or San Francisco ... which future control of the Panama Canal
might be in the hands of an independent, sovereign
Panama—supported by Japan Shultz and Weinberger,
meanwhile, masquerading as officials operati...
...
destruction of indigenous cultures, human lives, and hundreds of
thousands of species of animals, reptiles, fish, insects, and plants,
some of which might contain the undiscovered cures to any number ... than the mountains of Java, the
seas off the coast of the Philippines, the steppes of Asia, the savannas
of Africa, the forests of North America, the icecaps of the...