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`This unlikely page-turner slots neatly into a new genre that has emerged since the credit crunch' --Sunday Times: Culture
`an absolutely riveting book.' --The Herald, January 11, 2011
`The excellent Treasure Islands . . . Shaxson comes as close to anyone ever has in getting to the crux of the tax haven conundrum, which is to attempt to answer the question: why are they tolerated?' --Evening Standard, January 18, 2011
'Shaxson does an outstanding and socially valuable job in penetrating the impenetrable and finds a deeply shocking world.' --Nicholas Stern
'At last, a readable - indeed gripping - book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens. More importantly, it lays bare the mechanism that financial capital has been using to stay in charge: capturing government policy-making around the world, shaking off such irritants as democracy and the rule of law, and making sure that suckers like you and me pay for its operators' opulent lifestyles' --Misha Glenny, author of McMafia
'Treasure Islands is the best book on tax havens, ever. It shines a light in some very dark places. It reads like a thriller. The shocking thing is, it's all true. The world's suppliers of corruption services - the bankers, lawyers and accountants working from tax havens - won't want you to read this book. Which is exactly why you should' --Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research UK
'The struggle against money power is a struggle for human freedom, and Nicholas Shaxson's investigation is a timely exposé of where the plunder is buried' --John Pilger, broadcaster and author of Heroes
'Far more than an exposé, Treasure Islands is a brilliantly illuminating, forensic analysis of where economic power really lies, and the shockingly corrupt way in which it behaves. If you're wondering how ordinary people ended up paying for a crisis caused by the reckless greed of the banking industry, this compellingly readable book provides the answers'
--David Wearing, co-editor of New Left Project
'They who sold us globalisation as a way of the whole world getting richer with fair rules, cheated us by letting the rich and powerful go "offshore". This gripping exposé should help end the scandal' --Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy
'In this riveting, well-written expose, Shaxson goes deep into the largely unexamined realm of offshore money. In the process, he reveals that this shadow world is no mere sideshow, but is troublingly central to modern finance, with the US and the UK as leaders. The resulting abuses are widespread, ranging from tax revenue stripping from African nations to individuals and corporations escaping enforcement and accountability. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the hidden reasons why financial services firms have become so powerful and impossible to reform' --Yves Smith, creator of Naked Capitalism and author of Econned
'Shaxson combines meticulous research with amusing anecdotes, resulting in a very readable account of the murky world of offshore and a strong moral message that the system needs to be changed' --Financial Times
'Perhaps the most important book published in the UK so far this year' --George Mombiot, Guardian
'He has prised the lid off an important and terrifying can of worms'
--Martin Vander Weyer, Literary Review
'lively and well-written book' --Daily Mail
I am sure everybody knows it but the book by Nick Shaxson, Treasure Islands, is really an utterly superb book. --Jeffrey Sachs
`an absolutely riveting book.' --The Herald, January 11, 2011
`The excellent Treasure Islands . . . Shaxson comes as close to anyone ever has in getting to the crux of the tax haven conundrum, which is to attempt to answer the question: why are they tolerated?' --Evening Standard, January 18, 2011
'Shaxson does an outstanding and socially valuable job in penetrating the impenetrable and finds a deeply shocking world.' --Nicholas Stern
'At last, a readable - indeed gripping - book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens. More importantly, it lays bare the mechanism that financial capital has been using to stay in charge: capturing government policy-making around the world, shaking off such irritants as democracy and the rule of law, and making sure that suckers like you and me pay for its operators' opulent lifestyles' --Misha Glenny, author of McMafia
'Treasure Islands is the best book on tax havens, ever. It shines a light in some very dark places. It reads like a thriller. The shocking thing is, it's all true. The world's suppliers of corruption services - the bankers, lawyers and accountants working from tax havens - won't want you to read this book. Which is exactly why you should' --Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research UK
'The struggle against money power is a struggle for human freedom, and Nicholas Shaxson's investigation is a timely exposé of where the plunder is buried' --John Pilger, broadcaster and author of Heroes
'Far more than an exposé, Treasure Islands is a brilliantly illuminating, forensic analysis of where economic power really lies, and the shockingly corrupt way in which it behaves. If you're wondering how ordinary people ended up paying for a crisis caused by the reckless greed of the banking industry, this compellingly readable book provides the answers'
--David Wearing, co-editor of New Left Project
'They who sold us globalisation as a way of the whole world getting richer with fair rules, cheated us by letting the rich and powerful go "offshore". This gripping exposé should help end the scandal' --Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy
'In this riveting, well-written expose, Shaxson goes deep into the largely unexamined realm of offshore money. In the process, he reveals that this shadow world is no mere sideshow, but is troublingly central to modern finance, with the US and the UK as leaders. The resulting abuses are widespread, ranging from tax revenue stripping from African nations to individuals and corporations escaping enforcement and accountability. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the hidden reasons why financial services firms have become so powerful and impossible to reform' --Yves Smith, creator of Naked Capitalism and author of Econned
'Shaxson combines meticulous research with amusing anecdotes, resulting in a very readable account of the murky world of offshore and a strong moral message that the system needs to be changed' --Financial Times
'Perhaps the most important book published in the UK so far this year' --George Mombiot, Guardian
'He has prised the lid off an important and terrifying can of worms'
--Martin Vander Weyer, Literary Review
'lively and well-written book' --Daily Mail
I am sure everybody knows it but the book by Nick Shaxson, Treasure Islands, is really an utterly superb book. --Jeffrey Sachs
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This is the ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery - and secretive offshore tax havens are at the heart of the trouble.
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Enlightening at the same time depressing,
By Elle et belle "Lecteur" (France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World (Paperback)
The book is a must for those who would like to know why it is that the wealthy, super wealthy and global corporations can choose just how little tax they want to pay. The book is informative, very well researched, with no added jargonese.I liked reading the book but at it's conclusion I was left with the feeling that "yes" it's immoral, amoral, certainly illegal but there's such an all-pervading miasma embedded in the global financial system that it's impossible to see clearly who the bad guys are and where the tax evasion subterfuge and illegality starts and ends. It painfully and depressingly points up the fact that there are no alternatives to the system we have now so unfortunately we're stuck with it, reform it? Paying tax voluntarily when it's not necessary? You must be joking! However, given the same level of wealth would I act any differently? I really don't know if I would is my honest response. What the book does in part and I'm glad that it does is to rehabilitate John Maynard Keynes ideas of appropriate state intervention when necessary and nations being in control of their economies which they clearly are not. It's a real pity that Keynes didn't get his way in the late 40s when he wanted to make the international transfer of capital unlawful/illegal. Had he had his way I don't think we would have seen and subsidised the recent financial disaster and Mr Shaxton would have written something other than this book. Don't let me get started on Milton Friedman - the charlatan A good if gloomy read especially if you want to understand the serpentine nature of the system. This would be despite your probable desire to retain a degree of optimism regarding the positive, altruistic aspects of human nature.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World (Paperback)
Nicholas Shaxon has written an excellent, well referenced , substantive book on how the money system works. Governments collude with financiers, and business interests, to make and take easy options for the benefit of the wealthy. The book is truly a revelation, and does much to explain how the sub prime crisis in the US morphed inexorably as institutions wrapped their packages in ever more complex instruments, built on an avalanche of cheap money. Shocking, un-putdownable, a brilliant piece of writing. Every Economics student should read this book. It should be mandatory for all Bankers and Financial Investment people to read and understand the immorality of their profession.
78 of 95 people found the following review helpful:
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'Taxes are for the little people',
By bucky (london) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World (Paperback)
A brilliant expose of tax havens and tax avoidance.Quite topical with all these tory types not paying their fair share but be warned this book is bad for your blood pressure if you are one of the unfortunates who do pay your fair share in taxes. Its frightening how little the rich contribute to the countries they make their money from.Murdoch's companies pay about 6% tax in Britain,which shows what a parasite he is.Every honest tax payer should read this book.
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