A couple of days ago I suggested that limited liability should be removed from a company in the event that it abused certain standards if they were made
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To bridge the deficit, collect some taxes
David Callahan has written a blog under the above title on the Reuters web site. As he notes, the simple fact is that around the world deficits are largely
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The tax profession, tax havens and fraud: an ongoing saga
As the Telegraph reports: The Treasury has closed a tax avoidance scheme that could have cost £1.5bn after a tip off that artificial trading companies
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The new economics of social democracy, or why our only viable option is for the state to spend more
The Guardian’s reported that Ed Miliband has said: What has social democracy been about in Britain and in Europe perhaps since Tony Crosland? It is about
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Outflows, Not Aid, Must Be Curtailed to Fight Poverty
The following is by my Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development colleague, Raymond Baker, and is reposted from the Huffington Post: We learned some devastating
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Beyond Capitalism?
I’m appearing at the following event: Occupy London Economics Working Group present: A day of discussions of what an economically just future could look like. This is a chance
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Remove limited liability from those companies who act anti-socially
I’d love to say the following idea was mine, but it wasn’t, so I’m going to give credit for where it came from, in a letter to
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Miliband has no choice: he has to fight the Blairites in the interests of the people of this country
Seamus Milne has argued in the Guardian this morning that: For the past fortnight the Labour leader has faced a barrage of open or thinly
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Salmond and the Scots hold all our futures in their hands
Don’t get me wrong about Scottish nationalism. As someone who is quietly proud of being an Irish as well as a UK citizen, and who is a
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