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“Perhaps the most important book published in the UK so far this year.”
—George Monbiot, The Guardian
“Treasure Islands has prised the lid off an important and terrifying can of worms.”
—Literary Review
“Shaxson shows us that the global financial machine is broken and that very few of us have noticed.”
—New Statesman
“In this riveting, well-written exposé, 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 Capitalismand author of ECONned
“Treasure Islands shines the light on some very dark places. It reads like a thriller. The shocking thing is it’s all true.”
—Richard Murphy, co-author of Tax Havens:How Globalization Really Works
“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 policymaking 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: A Journeythrough the Global Criminal Underworld
“Trade and investments can play a profoundly productive role on the world economy. But so much of the capital flows that we see are associated with money laundering, tax evasion, and the wholesale larsony [sic] of assets often of very poor countries. These thefts are greatly facilitated by special tax and accounting rules or designed to “attract capital” and embodying obscure and opaque mechanisms. Shaxson does an outstanding and socially valuable job in penetrating the impenetrable and finds a deeply shocking world.”
—Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economistfor The World Bank
“The real challenge to America’s economy comes not from China—but from the Caymans, the Bahamas, and a whole hot-money archipelago loosely under the control of the City of London. If only as a civics lesson, read this astonishing book to find out the true political constitution of the wo ............

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