Nick Shaxson ■ 2013 – The Mythbusters edition

2013 – The Mythbusters edition

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13 March 2014

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Tax Justice Focus, May 2013 – The Mythbusters edition.

Daniel Stedman Jones – the Mythical Adam Smith
Aeron Davis – The City of London, media myth and reality
William Davies – Enterprise and Rent-seeking: a mythical conflation
Robin Ramsay – Mythical thinking in the political class

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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