Nick Shaxson, who wrote Treasure Islands, has a post under the above title on FT Alphaville this morning. It’s long. It’s good. It’s free to
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The IMF has noted that: The IMF’s Gita Gopinath, the World Bank’s Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, and the OECD’s Laurence Boone–all chief economists of their respective
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What I am pretty confident is my most significant academic publication to date has just appeared in print, in Global Policy journal. It’s also available
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I gave a talk in  Vienna last night. These were the slides: I hope the logic flows. I will do more posts on tax spillover
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The Guardian has reported this morning that: Momentum, the grassroots group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn, is directing its campaigning muscle into urging Labour
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I keep wanting to hear journalists ask Farage real questions about what the Brexit Party stands for. Instead of letting him rant about the failure
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As The Times reports this morning: Taxpayers in Wales face having extra money taken out of their wages after being incorrectly labelled as Scottish. And
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These graphs all come from the Guardian this morning. They explain populism, even though there are flaws in the Gini coefficient methodology which tends to
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I read the opinion polls and despair. How can 34% of people in this country think voting for Nigel Farage is an answer to their
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