I am writing this when at the launch event of the Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies – which I think is an amazing new
Read the full article…

The Guardian features Nick Shaxson’s new book The Finance Curse as its Long Read this morning. In that article new research, including by my co-author Prof Andrew Baker
Read the full article…

Nick Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands which is the most popular book on tax havens, has a new book out. This is the press
Read the full article…

The IMF thinks there is a risk of a new global financial crisis. These things do, however, require tipping points. Here are tow potential such
Read the full article…

Two headlines this morning. This from the FT: And this from the Guardian: Only one of these expressions of confidence or a lack of it can
Read the full article…

Hans Hoogervorst, the chair of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, has written in the FT this morning arguing that: [Some critics of accounting standards
Read the full article…

According to Theresa May austerity has ended. According to Philip Hammond it has not. I know who I believe. And it is not the Prime Minister.
Read the full article…

I enjoyed my debate with Arthur Laffer yesterday. I admit I enjoyed winning. If this was tax competition then I was in it for only
Read the full article…

I mentioned this morning that I was debating the faults of tax competition with Arthur Laffer in the appropriate environment of the OECD today. That
Read the full article…