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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Shaxson |
ISBN: | 9780099541721 0099541726 |
OCLC Number: | 755071509 |
Notes: | Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2011. |
Description: | xi, 332 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | How colonialism left through the front door, and came back in through a side window -- 1. Welcome to Nowhere : an introduction to offshore -- 2. Technically Abroad : taxing the Vestey brothers : squeezing rice pudding -- 3. The Profitable Shield of Neutrality : Switzerland, Europe's ancient secrecy jurisdiction -- 4. The Opposite of Offshore : John Maynard Keynes and the struggle against financial capital -- 5. Eurodollar : the Bigger Bang : the Eurodollar markets, the banks and the great escape -- 6. Construction of a Spider's Web : how Britain built a new overseas empire -- 7. The Fall of America : how America learned to stop worrying and love offshore business -- 8. The Deep Drains of Development : how tax havens harm poor countries -- 9. Ratchet : the roots of crisis -- 10. Resistance : in combat with the ideological warriors of offshore -- 11. The Life Offshore : the human factor -- 12. Griffin : the City of London Corporation. |
Responsibility: | Nicholas Shaxson. |
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"An utterly superb book" -- Jeffrey Sachs "Shaxson combines meticulous research with amusing anecdotes, resulting in a very readable account of the murky world of offshore and a strong moral message that the system needs to be changed" * Financial Times * "Excellent... Shaxson comes as close as anyone ever has in getting the crux of the tax haven conundrum, which is to attempt to answer the question: why are they tolerated? - Evening Standard" * Evening Standard * "A fascinating, chilling book" -- Paul Krugman "Not just a crucial expose of the corrupt systems endemic in the global economy, but also a rousing call to do something about them" -- Holly Kyte * Sunday Telegraph * Read more...

