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The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy
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The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy Paperback - 2003

by Henry, James S. ; Bradley, Bill (Foreword By.)

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Investigative journalist and industry insider James Henry delivers a hard-hitting, revealing look at the dramatic growth of the global underground economy. Subjects range from the looting of entire national treasuries by a few families in Asia and South America, to government-sanctioned drug trafficking.

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New York: Four Walls Eight Windows , 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A nice tight copy. .
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"One major piece of the puzzle about where all the money loaned to developing countries went, in addition to capital flight, involved wasteful projects."

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An attorney, former chief economist for McKinsey & Co., and vice president for strategy for IBM/Lotus, James S. Henry is also an investigative journalist who has written for many publications, including the New Republic, New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and many other magazines and newspapers. One of the original "Nader Raiders," he is founder and managing director of the Sag Harbor Group (www.sagharbor.com), a strategy consulting firm with a special focus on technology strategy and business development.

He has managed projects on a wide variety of competitive strategy issues for many global companies, including AT&T, GE, GM, IBM/ Lotus, Merrill Lynch, and the Samsung Group. He also serves as an advisor and board member of Peoplink.org, a nonprofit that focuses on bringing the benefits of e-commerce to developing countries, and an advisor to Ashoka, a "reverse Peace Corps" that sponsors more than 1500 fellows working on social and environmental issues in 30 developing countries.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a member of the New York Bar, and received a master's degree in economics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.