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Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy
Richard Murphy
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Description for Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy
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The Panama Papers demonstrated that the superrich hide their wealth from the rest of us. Dirty Secrets shows that this was not by accident, but by design. It was the result of a powerful alliance of the wealthy, their advisers and the state that has undermined all attempts to solve the tax haven problem.
This is because tax havens are the unacknowledged heart of globalized capitalism. Their purpose is to provide freedom from regulation. The exponents say this makes markets work and so we all gain. But this argument has now failed. Furthermore democracy itself is being threatened by ... Read more
The Panama Papers demonstrated that the superrich hide their wealth from the rest of us. Dirty Secrets shows that this was not by accident, but by design. It was the result of a powerful alliance of the wealthy, their advisers and the state that has undermined all attempts to solve the tax haven problem.
This is because tax havens are the unacknowledged heart of globalized capitalism. Their purpose is to provide freedom from regulation. The exponents say this makes markets work and so we all gain. But this argument has now failed. Furthermore democracy itself is being threatened by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786631671
SKU
V9781786631671
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About Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy is a UK chartered accountant. He has been described as the architect of 'Corbynomics' as part of the Corbyn campaign for leadership of the Labour Party. In 2015 he became Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London. He is joint author of Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works. He has also written The Courageous ... Read more
Reviews for Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy
A rare voice of sanity at a time of economic madness
Owen Jones, author of The Establishment Backed by years of experience and fired by relentless energy and a burning sense of anger at what the offshore system of tax havens is doing to our fragile world, Richard Murphy's tireless work at the leading edge of the tax justice ... Read more
Owen Jones, author of The Establishment Backed by years of experience and fired by relentless energy and a burning sense of anger at what the offshore system of tax havens is doing to our fragile world, Richard Murphy's tireless work at the leading edge of the tax justice ... Read more