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Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works Hardcover – Illustrated, Jan. 15 2010

by Ronen Palan (Author), Richard Murphy (Author), Christian Chavagneux (Author)
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From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike. In recent years government regulators, hoping to remedy economic crisis by diverting capital from hidden channels back into taxable view, have undertaken sustained and serious efforts to force tax havens into compliance.In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux provide an up-to-date evaluation of the role and function of tax havens in the global financial system?their history, inner workings, impact, extent, and enforcement. They make clear that while, individually, tax havens may appear insignificant, together they have a major impact on the global economy. Holding up to $13 trillion of personal wealth?the equivalent of the annual U.S. Gross National Product?and serving as the legal home of two million corporate entities and half of all international lending banks, tax havens also skew the distribution of globalization's costs and benefits to the detriment of developing economies.The first comprehensive account of these entities, this book challenges much of the conventional wisdom about tax havens. The authors reveal that, rather than operating at the margins of the world economy, tax havens are integral to it. More than simple conduits for tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens actually belong to the broad world of finance, to the business of managing the monetary resources of individuals, organizations, and countries. They have become among the most powerful instruments of globalization, one of the principal causes of global financial instability, and one of the large political issues of our times.

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    0801447356
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0801447358
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    Illustrated
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    Cornell University Press
  5. Publication date
    Jan. 15 2010
  6. Part of series
    Cornell Studies in Money
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  9. Print length
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If you are looking to understand how tax havens and offshore financial centers work, how they are governed (or not!), and what kind of economic and political impacts they have, then this book is for you! This recent text by well-recognized experts in the field is a most welcome addition to the literatures.... It fills an important void, since there was not until now a general but nevertheless detailed reference text on tax havens... it should be mandatory for courses in IPE, international finance, and international business.

-- Patrick Leblond ― Political Science Quarterly

Impeccably researched and packed with new insights, this groundbreaking book exposes financial capitalism's best-kept secret.

-- John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network International Secretariat, London

This book calls attention to one of the major scandals of our time.

-- James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

This book is an invaluable guide to the lightly studied subject of tax havens. Clearly written and thoroughly researched, it vividly demonstrates how central the scattered archipelago of so-called Preferential Tax Regimes is to the operation of contemporary global finance. Tax Havens belongs on the shelf of every specialist in the international political economy of money.

-- Benjamin J. Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara

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"Impeccably researched and packed with new insights, this groundbreaking book exposes financial capitalism's best-kept secret."—John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network International Secretariat, London

"This book calls attention to one of the major scandals of our time."—James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

"This book is an invaluable guide to the lightly studied subject of tax havens. Clearly written and thoroughly researched, it vividly demonstrates how central the scattered archipelago of so-called Preferential Tax Regimes is to the operation of contemporary global finance. Tax Havens belongs on the shelf of every specialist in the international political economy of money."—Benjamin J. Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press; Illustrated edition (Jan. 15 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801447356
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801447358
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 499 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
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Cliente Kindle
5.0 out of 5 stars Dá um bom panorama geral sobre paraísos fiscais e assuntos relacionados.
Reviewed in Brazil on December 13, 2021
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Esse livro leva a reflexão sobre os danos causados pelos paraísos fiscais, paraísos regulatórios e os paraísos de lavagem de dinheiro.
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James T. Ranney
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous fabulous book
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2010
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I had been hoping for the past decade that somebody would write this book. It exhaustively collects all extant data on offshore "tax/regulatory/secrecy havens," detailing their abuses, including: 1) an estimated annual worldwide tax loss of $255 BILLION (primarily from transfer pricing, mis-invoicing intra-group cross-border sales), with the result that by now 60% of large [over $250 million in assets] U.S. corporations pay no taxes, resulting in increased taxes on salaried middle class; 2) facilitation of recent financial crisis, due to opacity of risky assets; 3) facilitation of corruption (bribes, money-laundering, etc.); and facilitation of illegal capital flight, with one NGO estimating that tax havens cost the lives of at least 250,000 children a year in the developing world. And while a number of organizations, such as OECD, IMF, World Bank and others, have made efforts to rein in the worst abuses, must remains to be done. The authors outline several ideas, focusing especially on proposals by the Tax Justice Network for greater transparency. But this problem, as huge as it is, is just one part of the larger problem (soon to be addressed by a UN report by Joseph Stiglitz and David Kennedy) of lack of global economic regulation. Congratulations to the authors on a job well done!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2017
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dhavee k.
3.0 out of 5 stars confuse with his literature style but theory is useful
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2014
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i bought this to study at college. when i read i always headache, even if i am an international student, many class mate also said that. Author should change to be easier to read.
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Catalin Braescu
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2014
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French obsessed with capitalists daring to legally keep profits to themselves - these are the authors of this book. Moral crusaders against capitalism, international business, privacy rights, sovereignty of non-EU states, abject defenders of kleptomaniac governments who can't stand companies using legal tools.
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