Profit can be good if it serves society. But when profit becomes the only goal, trust collapses, workers suffer, and the planet pays the price.
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Why do professionals hate change?
Why do accountants, economists, lawyers, medics, politicians and civil servants all resist the very changes the world needs? In this video, I explain why top-tier
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Money, and the stories that are told to engineer control and privilege
A reader here asked this question today: Hi. New reader, found my way here via a recent interest in degrowth economics. I’m hoping someone here
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Who owns companies, and why?
A reader on this blog recently asked a question that goes to the heart of how our economy now works. It was simple: who are
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Tax changes everything
This week’s podcast was recorded as the final video in a series of videos that I made for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency. I
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Country-by-country reporting is working
I was pleased to note this email from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) yesterday: I recently highlighted my own critical role in
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The finance curse
The UK suffers from a finance curse. Far from being our economic jewel, the City of London has drained trillions from the economy. That’s lost
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The last thing this country needs is an expansion of Gatwick Airport
As the Guardian reports this morning: Gatwick Airport’s £2.2bn second runway plan has been given the go-ahead by the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander. With the
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How country-by-country reporting exposed tax havens
Something called country-by-country reporting, which I created, changed the tax world forever. It forced multinationals to reveal how much profit they were shifting into tax
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