Treasure islands : tax havens and the men who stole the world.- Shaxson, Nicholas

Vintage. 2012. Banks and banking, Foreign., Tax evasion., Tax havens., Economics 20 cm. xi, 332 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Idioma Inglés. Nicholas Shaxson. [Tax havens and the men who stole the world ]. With a new preface to the Paperback edition. Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index. Also available in printed form ISBN 9780099541721. Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Contents How colonialism left through the front door, and came back in through a side window -- 1. Welcome to Nowhere -- An introduction to offshore -- 2. Technically Abroad -- Taxing the Vestey brothers: squeezing rice pudding -- 3. The Profitable Shield of Neutrality -- Switzerland, Europe s ancient secrecy jurisdiction -- 4. The Opposite of Offshore -- John Maynard Keynes and the struggle against financial capital -- 5. Eurodollar: The Bigger Bang -- The Eurodollar markets, the banks and the great escape -- 6. Construction of a Spider s Web -- How Britain built a new overseas empire -- 7. The Fall of America -- How America learned to stop worrying and love offshore business -- 8. The Deep Drains of Development -- How tax havens harm poor countries -- 9. Ratchet -- The roots of crisis -- 10. Resistance -- In combat with the ideological warriors of offshore -- 11. The Life Offshore -- The human factor -- 12. Griffin -- The City of London Corporation . Cubierta deslucida. ISBN: 0099541726 (pbk.); 9780099541721 (pbk.)