Nick Shaxson ■ 2013 – The Finance Curse edition

2013 – The Finance Curse edition

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13 March 2014

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Tax Justice Focus, Sept 2013 – The Finance Curse edition

In partnership with Open Democracy

Doreen Massey – The ills of financial dominance
Adam Leaver – the Metropolitanisation of Gains
Nicholas Shaxson – From Resource Curse to Finance Curse
Tamasin Cave – Finance in the UK: more than a lobby
John Christensen and Nicholas Shaxson – The Finance Curse Intro

With a letter from Cyprus, an analysis of FATCA, and a book review.

The author

Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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