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Nicholas Shaxson The Finance Curse

How global finance is making us all poorer

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Vintage Publishing

UK

2019

Paperback

384

Standard

323622

978-1-78470-504-6

1-78470-504-7

Economic & financial crises & disasters

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We need finance – but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse. The City of London is the single biggest drain on our resources, sucking talent out of every sphere, siphoning wealth and hoovering up government time. Yet to be ‘competitive’, we’re told we must turn a blind eye to money laundering and appease big business with tax cuts. Tracing the curse back through economic history, Nicholas Shaxson uncovers how we got to this point. Moving from offshore tax havens to the bizarre industry of wealth management, he tells the explosive story of how finance established a stranglehold on society – and reveals how we can begin to break free.

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