These are my links for August 13th:
- Catching up with Corruption - Raymond Baker, John Christensen & Nicholas Shaxson - The American Interest Magazine - I can't breach the payment wall for you, but if you can get access please read this. It offers this definition of corruption:
Corruption is the abuse of public interest and the undermining of public confidence in the integrity of rules, systems and institutions that promote the public interest.
This is, of course, what tax havens do, deliberately
- New Scientist Short Sharp Science Blog: Why conservatives are happier than liberals - OK so liberals are angry: we've got good reason
- FT.com / Home UK / UK - Statistics, damned statistics and value added - "Sir Josiah Stamp, a founder of economic statistics, observed that “the government are very keen on amassing statistics – they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn well pleases.” "
Fabulous
- Man arrested over offshore tax scheme - Breaking News - National - Breaking News - More good news from Australia's fight against Vanuatuan abuse
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