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A searing indictment of global finance, exploring how the banking sector grew from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world, and showing how societies might fight against financial hegemony

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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.

A searing indictment of global finance, this work explores how the banking sector grew from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world, and shows how societies might fight against financial hegemony.

An agenda-setting book on global finance, envisaging changes to the system to serve the few and not the many.

Nicholas Shaxson is the author of Poisoned Wells, the Dirty Politics of African Oil, and an experienced journalist who has written regularly for the Financial Times, The Economist, Vanity Fair and many others.

Steueroasen sind keine exotischen und finsteren Nebenschauplätze der Weltwirtschaft, sie liegen vielmehr mitten in deren Zentrum. Die Hälfte des Welthandels durchfließt eine der Steueroasen, jeder multinationale Konzern bedient sich ihrer regelmäßig. Ihre größten Nutznießer sind nicht Terroristen, Schwarzmarkthändler, Prominente oder Mafiosi - sondern Banken und ihre Großkunden sowie multinationale Konzerne. Bei Steueroasen geht es nicht nur u...

Questa è la grande storia mai raccontata della globalizzazione. I paradisi fiscali sono infatti la faccia meno conosciuta, ma più centrale, della rete finanziaria mondiale: solo per fare un esempio, più di metà del commercio mondiale e gran parte di mutui e prestiti passano per questi luoghi, almeno "nominalmente". Ogni grande corporation vi svolge continuamente attività di routine e i suoi più grandi utilizzatori non sono certo terroristi, ma...

Questa è la grande storia mai raccontata della globalizzazione. I paradisi fiscali sono infatti la faccia meno conosciuta, ma più centrale, della rete finanziaria mondiale: solo per fare un esempio, più di metà del commercio mondiale e gran parte di mutui e prestiti passano per questi luoghi, almeno "nominalmente". Ogni grande corporation vi svolge continuamente attività di routine e i suoi più grandi utilizzatori non sono certo terroristi, ma...

Since the banking crisis of 2008 the world of international finance has increasingly come under the spotlight. The consequent squeeze on public finances has led to global firms such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon coming under fire for the techniques that they use to avoid paying tax. There seems to be a growing culture of naming and shaming companies, and an increasing pressure on governments to act. Underpinning much of this financial manipu...

A thrilling ride inside the world of tax havens and corporate mastermindsWhile the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European countries face bankruptcy, experts struggle to make sense of the crisis. Nicholas Shaxson, a former correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, argues that tax havens are a central cause of all these disasters.In this hard hitting investigation he uncovers how offshore tax evas...

Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development, but is instead causing violence, poverty, and stagnation. It is also generating vast corruption that reaches deep into American and European economies. In Poisoned Wells, Nicholas Shaxson ...