Meltdown: Money, Debt and the Wealth of Nations, Volume 4
Author : William Krehm
Publisher : COMER Publications
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1999
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ISBN : 0968068154
Author : William Krehm
Publisher : COMER Publications
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1999
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ISBN : 0968068154
Author : William Krehm
Publisher : COMER Publications
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1999
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ISBN : 0968068162
Author : William Krehm
Publisher : COMER Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780968068120
" ... Four volumes of selections from the first 20 years of Economic reform, the print publication of the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform."--V. 2, p. ix.
Author : William Krehm
Publisher : COMER Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Banks and banking, Central
ISBN : 0968068146
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Publisher : COMER Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Banks and banking, Central
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Author : Simon Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0307379221
In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.
Author : William Krehm
Publisher : COMER Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 096806812X
" ... Four volumes of selections from the first 20 years of Economic reform, the print publication of the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform."--V. 2, p. ix.
Author : Gabriel Zucman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022624556X
We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world’s wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world’s wealth hidden in tax havens—in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands—this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world’s assets are currently hidden—until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world’s money held in tax havens. And it’s staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His research reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25%—there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least $7.6 trillion, equivalent to 8% of the global financial assets of households. Fighting the notion that any attempts to vanquish tax havens are futile, since some countries will always offer more advantageous tax rates than others, as well the counter-argument that since the financial crisis tax havens have disappeared, Zucman shows how both sides are actually very wrong. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations he offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. Only by first understanding the enormity of the secret wealth can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax havens to give up their practices. Zucman’s work has quickly become the gold standard for quantifying the amount of the world’s assets held in havens. In this concise book, he lays out in approachable language how the international banking system works and the dangerous extent to which the large-scale evasion of taxes is undermining the global market as a whole. If we are to find a way to solve the problem of increasing inequality, The Hidden Wealth of Nations is essential reading.
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1576755126
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.