Product Description
Treasure Islands
Author(s): Nicholas Shaxson
Format: Paperback
Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor countries stay poor.
Investigative journalist Nicholas Shaxson exposes the hidden architecture of the global financial system - the offshore networks that allow corporations and elites to avoid tax, hide wealth and distort democracy.
From the City of London to the Caribbean and beyond, Treasure Islands reveals how trillions vanish into secret offshore tax havens every year. Engrossing, urgent and deeply researched, it's essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the corruption at the heart of the global economy and how it can be stopped.
'An utterly superb book' Jeffrey Sachs
'Fascinating, chilling' Paul Krugman
About the Author
Nicholas Shaxson is the author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World and Poisoned Wells: the Dirty Politics of African Oil. He is a journalist, a campaigner and world expert on both tax havens and financial centres; and on the Resource Curse. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Financial Times, The Economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit, and many others. He is part of the organisation the Tax Justice Network.
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