In the June 2017 Tax Justice Network Taxcast they ask — has the UK just had its first tax justice general election? Why was economic
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Tax havens really do mess up our economy
I was asked to answer some questions on tax havens yesterday. They’ll be used as part of the publicity for the Portuguese edition of my
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Housing really is central to everything
The following blog has been reproduced, with permission, from the CommonSpace website. Common Space is run by Common Weal, which is a pro-independence think thank
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Will we accept the price for caring?
Grenfell Tower is not going away. It featured in the Queen’s Speech. The tragedy is very obviously abut something more than the personal disaster it
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What the Queen’s Speech really says
Political economy is all about the study of the relationships of power that determine the distribution of resources in the economy. What does today’s Queen’s
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A brief history of money
Might I recommend an excerpt from Charles Adams’ unpublished book (“Peoplons, Charmons and the Strange One: the uncertain science of economics”) on “A Brief History
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The BVI’s dirty secret is worth $1.5 trillion
The FT has published an article this morning noting a report prepared by the government of the British Virgin Islands that notes that at least $1.5
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Political choice is not a question of affordability
Last week the FT published an op-ed by a person called Michael Power. His core argument, to which I referred here, was that capitalism could
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Journeys to Yes: the economics of Scottish independence
If you can face half an hour of almost uninterrupted me on the issue of Scotland, its economy, taxes and independence, then this is for
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