Dirty Secrets: a first review

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Prospect magazine appears to have offered the first review of my new book, 'Dirty Secrets: How tax havens destroy the economy'. Written by Simon Bowers, until very recently of the Guardian, it begins:

Spirited and resolute, Richard Murphy has for decades been a leading voice on the left arguing for international tax reform. He fizzes with ideas about how policy-makers should organise policies on an international scale–and his target is invariably tax havens.

His latest book, Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy, argues that if we manage to stamp out tax havens, the rewards will be bountiful: inequality will fall, and so too the cost of capital. Regulation, markets and even democracy will function better.

The rest is here. And for the record, my solutions are broader than introducing unitary taxation, although that is one of them.


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