The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer
By: Nicholas Shaxson
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the "resource curse," seei…
Want to Read $ 9.99"...offshore is, almost by definition, the equivalent of the smoke-filled room, where business always gets done outside of, and indeed in opposition to, the democratic process. They operate according to the Golden Rule: whoever has the gold, makes the rules."-Nicholas Shaxson, The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer
"...offshore is, almost by definition, the equivalent of the smoke-filled room, where business always gets done outside of, and indeed in opposition to, the democratic process. They operate according to the Golden Rule: whoever has the gold, makes the rules."-Nicholas Shaxson, The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer
"...offshore is, almost by definition, the equivalent of the smoke-filled room, where business always gets done outside of, and indeed in opposition to, the democratic process. They operate according to the Golden Rule: whoever has the gold, makes the rules."-Nicholas Shaxson, The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer
"So Eurodollars were in one sense dollars like any other, but in another sense they were different because they had escaped into a market outside government control, where they could behave freely. It’s a bit like taking someone from their family home in the suburbs to a wild part of town and offering them whisky and cocaine. They are the same person but also different – more fun but also more irresponsible."-Nicholas Shaxson, The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer
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