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Nicholas Shaxson

    Treasure Islands
    The Finance Curse
    • The Finance Curse

      • 386 stron
      • 14 godzin czytania

      This is a book that none of us can afford to ignore - an agenda-setting, campaigning investigation that shows how global finance works for the few and not the many. A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKIS We need finance - but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse.

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    • Treasure Islands

      • 336 stron
      • 12 godzin czytania

      Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs. Wealthy individuals hold over ten trillion dollars offshore. Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor countries stay poor. Treasure Islands show how this happens and reveal what the economics text books will not tell you.

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