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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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Author:   Nicholas Shaxson
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.266kg
ISBN:  

9781784705046

ISBN 10:   1784705047
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   17 October 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Utterly convincing... The Finance Curse is a radical and important manifesto for improving Britain -- Oliver Bullough, author of MONEYLAND This is a splendid polemic against modern finance, in general, and the City of London, in particular. It is hard-hitting, well written and informative. Instead of enabling productive investment, the predominant activity of contemporary finance is rent extraction. This comes in many different guises: modern finance does not only promote tax avoidance and evasion, but, argues Shaxson, enables gangsterism and corruption on an enormous scale. I fear he is right. -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times * This superbly written book shows definitively how global finance has been grossly mis-sold to us all. It's a must-read for anyone who lives, works and spends in this country -- MISHA GLENNY, author of McMafia Gripping . . . a superbly written overview * Times Literary Supplement * Searing... Shaxson has form on being prescient ... his ideas should not be dismissed lightly -- Caroline Binham * Financial Times *

Author Information

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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